Setting
The city Amir returns to after years away.
What is Kabul?
Farid becomes friendlier after staying at this man’s house.
Who is Wahid?
The object Sohrab is inseparable from.
What is a slingshot?
The beggar’s former profession.
What is a university professor?
The orphanage director’s name.
Who is Zaman?
What happened to most of Kabul’s trees.
What is they were cut down for firewood and to prevent snipers?
Farid’s reaction when Amir stares at the Taliban.
What is anger/fear—he tells Amir never to stare at them?
Amir’s familial relationship to Sohrab.
What is his half-uncle?
Amir’s mother’s fear during pregnancy.
What is being profoundly happy because happiness can be taken away?
Roughly how many children live at the orphanage.
What is about 250?
The route Amir and Farid travel that shows remnants of two wars.
What is the Jalalabad–Kabul road?
Farid’s physical injury that symbolizes the war’s toll.
What is his mangled hand?
Zaman’s justification for allowing the Talib to take children.
What is if he refuses one child, the Talib takes ten?
Amir’s mother’s name.
Who is Sofia Akrami?
One major shortage the orphanage faces.
What is food / blankets / clean water / beds?
The mountains from which rockets were fired into Kabul during the civil war.
What is the Shirdarwaza range?
The smell Farid says Jadeh Maywand used to have in the old days.
What is lamb kabob?
How long ago Sohrab was taken by the Talib official.
What is about a month ago?
What Amir learns his mother loved to eat.
What is almond cake with hot tea and honey?
How often the Talib official visits the orphanage.
What is once every month or two?
The major street Amir remembers from childhood that is now in ruins.
What is Jadeh Maywand?
Why Farid nearly kills Zaman.
What is Zaman’s role in allowing children to be taken by the Taliban?
The realization that convinces Amir he cannot leave Afghanistan without Sohrab.
What is recognizing his past cowardice and choosing redemption through action?
Poets the beggar says he taught (name one).
Who is Hafez / Rumi / Khayyam / Saadi / Jami / Beydel?
Where Amir is told he will see the Talib official who took Sohrab.
What is Ghazi Stadium?