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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Baba die?
(a) When Amir and Soraya start college.
(b) About a month after Amir and Soraya's wedding.
(c) At Amir and Soraya's wedding.
(d) About a month before Amir and Soraya's wedding.

2. How does Amir's wife react to hearing the entire truth about Amir's childhood?
(a) Upset.
(b) Happily.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Lovingly.

3. Why is Baba's speech at Amir's engagement party not more impressive?
(a) He does not want to make a speech.
(b) He is not happy about the engagement.
(c) He is too ill and short of breath.
(d) The General stops him.

4. Why does Farid assume Amir has come to Afghanistan in Chapter 19?
(a) To save Sohrab from the orphanage.
(b) To rebuild his life.
(c) To rebuild the orphanage.
(d) To sell family property and take the money back with him to America.

5. 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 find an appropriate disguise.
(c) To get word to Sohrab.
(d) To be able to sneak across with alerting the Taliban.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the cut on his lip remind Amir of?

2. During his recovery in Chapter 23, what does Amir dream?

3. Where did Rahim Kahn live for many years?

4. What happened to Hassan and his wife?

5. What were Amir's injuries from the man in the sunglasses?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Amir continues to refuse to share the truth about his quest with Farid in Chapter 21?

2. Why do Farzana and Hassan nurse his mother back to health?

3. Describe one example of irony in Chapter 22.

4. With whom does Amir set up a meeting in Chapter 21?

5. Describe the difference between the motivation for Amir leaving money under Hassan's mattress as a child and leaving it under Farid's family's mattress as an adult.

6. What do kites symbolize to Amir, as seen in Chapter 14?

7. Explain why Farid grabs the orphanage director in Chapter 20.

8. Why was Amir so taken with listening to the stories about his mother that the beggar shared in Chapter 20?

9. What skill does Soraya's mother have that she has been forbidden to share in public?

10. What happened to the orphanage that Baba built?

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