The Kite Runner Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions about Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner?

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1. Amir was born and raised primarily in this city

Kandahar ✓

Jalalabad ✓

Kabul ✓

Peshawar ✓

2. It turns out that Amir is actually this relation to Hassan

Full-Brother ✓

Half-Brother ✓

Cousin ✓

Uncle ✓

3. What ultimately leads to Baba's death?

Cancer as a result of habitual smoking ✓

Liver failure due to alcholism ✓

Beaten to death while intervening in a robbery ✓

Shot for standing up to a Taliban soldier ✓

4. What does Amir witness as a child that torments him well into adulthood?

Soldiers killing an innocent family in an execution ✓

The massacre of Hazara's in the 1990s ✓

Hassan being raped by bullies ✓

The suicide of his mother ✓

5. True or False? The events in Afghanistan made Amir so disgusted in his country that when he got to America, he did whatever he could to shed his culture and leave it behind, going as far as taking an American wife and denouncing Islam

True ✓

False ✓

6. Why does Amir, as an adult, end up going back to Afghanistan?

To rescue Hassan's orphaned child, Sohrab ✓

To sell his father's estate as it is worth a large sum ✓

Religious pilgrimage back to his homeland ✓

He is extradited by the US as a prisoner of war ✓

7. What American city did Amir and Baba move to as a result of their flight from Afghanistan?

Los Angeles ✓

San Francisco ✓

Sacramento ✓

Fresno ✓

8. What career path did Amir choose while in America?

Psychiatrist ✓

Lawyer ✓

Electrician ✓

Writer ✓

9. What type of tree could be found at the top of the hill that Amir and Hassan would frequent as kids to read and play?

Pomegranate ✓

Cherry ✓

Fig ✓

Walnut ✓

10. Why was Sohrab rushed to the hospital towards the end of the book?

Severe dehydration ✓

Attempted suicide ✓

Injuries acquired due to a nearby bombing ✓

Attacked by a rabid dog ✓

11. What present did Assef present to Amir for his 13th birthday?

A slingshot ✓

A nude magazine ✓

A copy of Mein Kampf ✓

A knuckle sandwich ✓

12. What talent did Hassan have that he was able to effortlessly do better than anyone?

Skip rocks ✓

Soccer playing ✓

Climb trees ✓

Track down falling kites ✓

13. True or False? Amir was always bigger and tougher than Hassan and ultimately was the one that often had to get him out of trouble

True ✓

False ✓

14. How did Amir meet his wife?

They had a class in college together ✓

At a peace rally they both were marching in ✓

They had nearby vendor tents at the market they sold goods at ✓

An arraigned marriage by Baba ✓

15. What country invaded Afghanistan in the late 1970s, changing life there for good?

USA ✓

Pakistan ✓

Iran ✓

USSR ✓

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