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Quiz over pages 131-142
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1. How did Baba celebrate Amir’s graduation?
a. Bought drinks for everyone in the bar that evening
b. Ordered a lavish meal at a restaurant for all the people they knew
c. Nothing because he was ashamed of his degree
d. Baba and Amir celebrated alone in their apartment
2. What did Baba get Amir for his graduation?
a. A ticket for Rahim Kahn to come America and celebrate with them
b. College tuition
c. A car
d. A leather bound notebook with a personal message in the cover from Baba
3. How did Baba and Amir earn extra money?
a. Taught a English class to Afghanistan citizens who just moved to America
b. Sold all of their expensive possessions from Afghanistan
c. Donated their blood
d. Sold used items at a market
4. Who did Amir meet in these pages?
a. Ali and Hassan
b. Rahim Kahn
c. His future mentor who is also an English teacher at the university
d. General Sahib and his daughter Soraya
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Quiz over pages 142-157
5. What did Amir do at the market each week so that he could talk to Soraya?
a. Purchased items from the Taheri stand
b. Go find the Taheri stand and ask to talk to the General
c. Went and bought Coca-Cola so he would walk past their stand
d. Pretend Baba needed to talk to Soraya and then bring her back to their stand.
6. One week Amir lingered to long with Soraya. What did the General tell him?
a. “You are unworthy to marry my daughter because you do not respect our customs”
b. “You have become to ‘American’ because you no longer follow our country’s customs.”
c. “It is my duty to remind you that you are among peers in the market.”
d. “My favorite part of bringing my family to the market is that you make Soraya smile.”
7. What do you think the General meant by this comment?
8. What has started to happen to Baba?
9. What happened when Baba visited the doctor and found out his doctor, though born in America, had Russian
ancestors?
a. Baba said that despite their country’s differences he was happy that he was his doctor.
b. He said that if the Russian doctor touched him he would break his face.
c. He slammed him up against the wall and told him he despised his country.
d. He shook his hand.
Bonus question: Earlier in the book, what was the negative situation Baba (and Amir) had with Russians?
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Quiz over pages 157-173
1. What happens to Baba at the market at the beginning of these pages?
a. He collapses because of his cancer
b. He sells his wife’s wedding ring
c. He gets in a fight with a Russian man
d. He tells everyone at the market that his son loves Soraya
2. Amir knows Baba is not going to live much longer. What does he talk to him about?
a. The Hassan incident he witnessed many years ago.
b. His mother and what she was like
c. Wanting Baba to ask the General about Soraya marrying Amir
d. The reasons Baba wanted to move to America
3. What do we find out Soraya did when she was 18? This is what she told Amir on the phone.
4. Describe at least one of the wedding customs they explained in the book.
5. What happened to Baba at the very end of these pages?
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Quiz over pages 336-350
6. What is
a.
b.
c.
d.
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the one major roadblock in Amir adopting Sohrab
Sohrab can’t speak English.
Amir doesn’t have enough money
Amir can’t get death certificates
Sohrab needs his parents to agree to the adoption
7. What does Amir begin to believe the best course of action is to get Sohrab adopted?
a. Smuggle him in his suitcase
b. Send him temporarily to an orphanage
c. Forget about the whole thing and leave Sohrab behind
d. Move Soraya to Afghanistan and the three of them would live there.
8. What is
a.
b.
c.
d.
Sohrab’s response to the option he is given above?
He agrees to it
He cries until he falls asleep
He tries to punch Amir for suggesting the option
He hides in a closet and refuses to come out
9. What did Sohrab do in the bathroom that evening?
10. Does Sohrab survive?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes but he is handicapped because of the loss of blood
d. None of the above
Kite Runner Quiz – Pages 272-299
1. Where
a.
b.
c.
d.
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did Amir wake up?
In a hospital
In America
He didn’t wake up, he died
In Farid’s home
2. List at least two of Amir’s injuries. For every injury more than two that you list you will receive a bonus point.
3. What was Amir’s job for the day?
a. To eat solid food
b. To call his wife
c. To throw up the blood in his stomach
d. To pass gas
4. Did Sohrab know Amir when he introduced himself?
a. Yes, because Hassan talked so much about Amir
b. Yes, because Sohrab met Amir when he was a toddler
c. No, because he had never met him or heard of him
d. Sohrab and Amir still haven’t met
5. What is
a.
b.
c.
d.
the current status of Rahim Kahn?
He died
He is still living but left for somewhere we don’t know
He has cured his cancer
He moved to America