The Kite Runner Chapters 17-19

What eventually happens to Hassan and Faranza

• they relocate to Peshawar

• they are executed by the Taliban

• they travel to Iran to escape the killings

• they still in live Kabul, taking care of Baba's house

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Where is Sohrab?

• waiting for Amir to adopt him

• in an orphanage in Kareh-Seh

• working for the Taliban in Kabul

• at a boarding school in Peshawar

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What else does Amir discover about his past?

• Hassan knew that Amir was in the alley during the rape

• His mother, Sofia ran away-she did not die at childbirth

• Hassan and Amir are half-brothers, Ali was sterile

• Rahim Khan is, in reality, his uncle from a previous marriage

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How does Ali die?

• the Taliban shoots him in a soccer stadium

• he contracted pneumonia and asphyxiates

• he steps on a land mine

• the mortar shells of the retreating Russians land on his hut

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What is the name of the Tajik driver who takes Amir back to Afghanistan?

• Sohrab

• Farid

• Khaled

• Soraya

What does the driver give Amir in order to combat his car sickness?

• Dramamine

• a paper bag

• a cold wash cloth

• a lemon

What does Amir give the driver's brother's (Wahid's) children as hadia, or gift?

• his old American jeans and T-shirt

• five American dollars for each of the three

• dinner at the local restaurant

• his wristwatch

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What does Amir leave behind in the hut?

• his backpack, filled with food

• money under the mattress

• his latest novel about Afghanistan

• a bag of fresh lemons and oranges from California

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What does Amir have to change now that he is in Afghanistan? (ALL EXCEPT ONE)

• he must never look a woman in the eyes

• he has an artificial chest length black beard

• he cannot show anyone that he is educated

• he wears traditional clothing, a pakol

What does Amir say about how he feels now that he is back in his country?

• I have no country anymore, it's been destroyed

• I wish I could show Soraya where I was born

• I feel like a tourist in my own country

• The Taliban have made wondrous changes for the better

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