Kite Runner - Chapter 25

In the opening paragraph, the sentence "Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons" is best understood to mean that you can be excused from

• appreciating how relatively fortunate you are in such mental anguish

• seeing things from another point of view when you are demonically possessed

• understanding just how spoiled you are to be living in the West

• listening to other people's perspectives on life and liberty

• luxuriating in your suffering when other people's suffering is so much greater

In the paragraph that begins "One day," Amir's capitalization of the phrase "Spoiling the End" is best characterized as

• reverent

• servile

• contemptuous

• mock-solemn

• mock-heroic

In the paragraph that beings "After all," the simile "like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis [nomads]" suggests that life is

• nomadic

• nasty

• messy

• diagrammatic

• exotic

In the paragraph that begins "Soraya had turned the study," the description of the room primarily indicates

• the importance of kite flying in the novel

• Soraya's skill as an interior decorator

• Soraya's ambivalence about the arrival of Sohrab

• the depth of Soraya's longing for a child

• Amir and Soraya's material success in America

The general's attitude toward Sohrab, which Amir takes exception to, is best characterized as

• vitriolic

• apathetic

• diffident

• solicitous

• belittling

In the paragraph that begins "'It's all right,'" the LEAST accurate characterization of Amir's words would be

• circumspect

• direct

• frank

• respectful

• candid

Examples of personification can be found in the paragraphs that begin

I. "Looking at her smiling at Sohrab"

II. "I slipped the picture back"

III. "Hello, young man"

• I only

• II only

• I and II only

• II and III only

• I, II, and III