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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. What does Farid leave under a mattress in Farid's home?
(a) Some food.
(b) His watch.
(c) Some money.
(d) A novel he wrote.

2. What were Amir's injuries from the man in the sunglasses?
(a) Broken ribs and a cut upper lip.
(b) Broken rips and a cut lower lip.
(c) Internal injuries and an eye wound.
(d) A cut on his face and a broken leg.

3. What do Farid and Amir see on their way to the soccer match in Chapter 21?
(a) A woman hanging from his father's house.
(b) Sohrab being chased through the streets.
(c) A body left hanging in the street.
(d) A crippled man begging for a new leg.

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

5. Who pays for Amir and Soraya's wedding?
(a) Amir uses his life savings.
(b) Baba uses his life savings.
(c) Soraya uses her life savings.
(d) The General uses his life savings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who/what divided Kabul into sections?

2. What does Rahim Kahn want Amir to do in Chapter 17?

3. When Amir first asks Sohrab to come with him to America, how does Sohrab respond?

4. What is Sohrab amazed to see in Chapter 24?

5. Who lived with Rahim Kahn for 10 years?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what does Amir deduce is his relationship with Hassan?

2. In Chapter 13, what does Amir feel is coming between him and Soraya in their marriage?

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

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

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

6. Describe one example of irony in Chapter 22.

7. Why does Sohrab not have to go back to the orphanage in Chapter 24?

8. What happened to the orphanage that Baba built?

9. What changes Hassan's mind about moving back to Kabul with Rahim Kahn?

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

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