Kite Runner Midpoint Test Review

Characters

100

This is the name of the novel's protagonist

Amir

200

This is the name of Amir's childhood best friend

Hassan

300

This is the name of Amir's wife

Soraya

400

This is the name of Assef's friend, who died in the fuel tank while fleeing Kabul

Kamal

500

This is the name of Hassan's mother

Sanaubar

Amir's Childhood

100

This is the name of the city and country where Amir grew up.

Kabul, Afghanistan

200

This is what Amir wants most in his life as a child

Baba's approval

300

These are the objects that Amir hides under Hassan's mattress in order to frame him for theft

Money and a watch

400

This is how Baba responds when Hassan confesses to stealing Amir's possessions

He forgives him

500

This is the reason that Amir says that he doesn't consider Hassan to be a friend, even though they're close

Hassan is a Shia Hazara and Amir is a Sunni Pashtun

Fleeing Kabul

100

This is the country to which Amir and Baba initially flee, before going to America

Pakistan

200

This is Amir's age when he and Baba flee America

18 years old

300

This is the reason that Baba and Amir flee Afghanistan

Because the Soviets had invaded

400

This is the reason that Kamal died while fleeing from Kabul

He was suffocated by the fumes in the fuel tank

500

This is what Amir thinks of when he's in the fuel tank, struggling to breathe

He and Hassan flying kites

Baba and Amir in America

100

This is the state in which Baba and Amir settle when they arrive in America

California

200

This is the illness that Baba is diagnosed with.

Cancer

300

This is Baba's new job in America.

Gas station attendant

400

This is Soraya's big secret that she confesses after she and Amir get engaged.

That she ran away for a month with an Afghan man

500

This is why General Taheri doesn't want Amir and Soraya to adopt a child

Because they wouldn't know the child's "blood" or their history

Grab Bag

100

This is what General Taheri did when Amir brought Soraya his story at the flea market

Threw it in the trash

200

This is the name of Baba's best friend

Rahim Khan

300

This is what Soraya wants to do as a career

Teacher

400

This is the reason that Amir doesn't want to adopt a child

He views it as his punishment for what he did to Hassan

500

This is why General Taheri refuses to get a job in America

He is waiting to get called back to Afghanistan and sees the jobs he could do in the US as degrading