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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Hassan's first child?
(a) She is stillborn.
(b) She is killed by the Taliban.
(c) The Taliban take her.
(d) She lives and becomes great friends with her grandmother.

2. What does Amir find he has in common with Sohrab?
(a) Singing.
(b) A cleft palate.
(c) Writing stories.
(d) Playing cards.

3. What does Amir dream of at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) The kite competition.
(b) Baba.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Hassan.

4. Why is Amir going to visit Rahim Khan in Chapter 14?
(a) Because he requested it.
(b) Because he wants to see Pakistan again.
(c) Because Amir is ill.
(d) Because Rahim Khan is ill.

5. What is Sohrab amazed to see in Chapter 24?
(a) A mosque.
(b) The American Embassy.
(c) A nice hotel.
(d) Cartoons.

6. Why does Amir not see more adult males in the streets of Kabul in Chapter 20?
(a) Most of the men are Taliban and on patrol.
(b) Men are not allowed to walk the streets.
(c) Men are at work and not able to walk the streets.
(d) Many have been casualties of the war.

7. Where did Rahim Kahn live for many years?
(a) In Baba's Orphanage.
(b) In Baba's House.
(c) In Hassan's mud hut.
(d) In his own house.

8. Who/what divided Kabul into sections?
(a) Rahim Kahn.
(b) Former government.
(c) Militant factions.
(d) Russians.

9. What happened to the pomegranate tree?
(a) It died.
(b) It was Taliban headquarters.
(c) It was full of life in a barren area still bearing fruit.
(d) It was cut down and used for wood.

10. Who is the beggar that Amir gives some money in Chapter 20?
(a) A teacher who Amir had had as a child.
(b) A university professor who worked with Amir's mother.
(c) A teacher who was friends with Baba.
(d) A university professor who worked with Hassan's mother.

11. Whose phone call makes Amir agitated?
(a) Rahim Khan's.
(b) Hassan's.
(c) The General's.
(d) Soraya's.

12. Who does Soraya call to help with the adoption process?
(a) Her brother, who is a lawyer.
(b) Her brother, who works for the INS.
(c) Her uncle, a lawyer.
(d) Her uncle, who works for the INS.

13. What does Amir eat as he waits for the man with sunglasses in Chapter 22?
(a) Pomegranates.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Rice.
(d) Coffee.

14. Why does Rahim Khan want Amir to wait a little longer before beginning his journey in Chapter 19?
(a) To have more time to prepare.
(b) To get word to Sohrab.
(c) To be able to sneak across with alerting the Taliban.
(d) To find an appropriate disguise.

15. Why does Amir have a hard time believing the truth about his father?
(a) Because of Hassan's ethnicity.
(b) Because of his father's religious views.
(c) Because of his father's view of dishonesty.
(d) Because of Amir's childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man with the sunglasses?

2. In what disguise does Amir travel to Afghanistan in Chapter 19?

3. When does Baba die?

4. Where does the director tell Amir he might find Sohrab?

5. Where does Amir finally admit his relationship with Sohrab?

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