The Kite Runner Knowledge Quiz

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  • Created on: 09-04-18 11:07
Who wrote 'The Kite Runner'?
Khaled Hosseini
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What form does the novel take?
Bildungsroman
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Where in Afghanistan does Amir grow up?
Kabul
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What is the name of the district where Baba's house is?
Wazir Akbar Khan
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What animal is Baba said to have wrestled?
A black bear
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What does Baba say is the greatest crime of all?
Theft
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What happened to Amir's mother?
She died during childbirth
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What was Amir's mother's name?
Sofia Akrami
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Who was Hassan's mother?
Sanaubar
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What happened to Hassan's mother?
She left 5 days after giving birth to Hassan
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How were the boys fed as babies?
By the same Hazara nurse
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Give a quotation to support the answer to the previous question
"There was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break"
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Amir and Hassan often played together as children. What type of tree did they often visit?
Pomegranate Tree
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Where is the tree?
Cemetery
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What story did Amir often read to Hassan?
Rostam and Sohrab
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What happens in the story?
Rostam mortally wounds his enemy, Sohrab, in a battle, onlt to discorver that Sohrab is his long lost son
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If the illiterate Hassan asks Amir for the meaning of a word, what does Amir do?
Amir gives Hassan the wrong meaning
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Give an example to support the previous answer - quotation
"'imbecile.' It means smart, intelligent" / "Hassan is an imbecile"
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What line is repeated several times throught the novel and demonstrates Hassan's loyalty to Amir?
"For you a thousand times over"
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Which other character says the answer for the previous question?
Farid
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Why does this character (answer to previous question) say this to Amir?
Amir has earnt his loyalty and respect by rescuing Sohrab bravely from Afghanistan
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What is the date of the bloodless coup, when King Zahir Shah is overthrown during Amir and Hassan's childhood?
1973
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During the night of the coup, what does Ali tell Amir and Hassan to keep them calm?
People are hunting ducks
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Amir and Hassan are bullied by Assef as a child. What is the neighbourhood nickname for Assef?
Ear-eater
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What does Assef wear when he fights?
Brass knuckles
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Hassan threatens Assef with his slilngshot in order to rescur Amir. What does Hassan call Assef?
"One-eyed Assef"
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Amir is a keen kite fighter and Hassan is a keen kite runner. What does a kite runner do?
Runs after the kites that have been cut down in a competition
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What did Amir and Hassan mix together to put on the string of the kites they made?
Glue and glass
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What colour is the kite that Amir and Hassan use to win the tournament?
Red with yellow borders
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What colour is the kite they cut down to win the tournament?
Blue
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What are the names of Assef's sidekicks?
Wali and Kamal
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When Amir is 18, Baba decides that they should leave Afghanistan. Why does Baba make this decision?
Because Russia has invaded Afghanistan
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In what year does the answer to the previous question happen?
1979
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In what year was the answer to question 32 reversed?
1989
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Where do Amir and Baba settle in the USA?
Fremont, California
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Baba does not like taking the government welfare and so finds himself a job. Where does he work? What does he do?
In a gas station, selling petrol and goods
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Amir continues his education. Which subject does he study for higher education?
Creative writing
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How do Amir and Baba spend their Saturdays?
Driving round garage sales to buy second-hand things to sell at the San Jose Flea Market on Sunday
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Where does Amir meet his future wife?
San Jose Flea Market
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What is her name?
Soraya
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What is her mother's name?
Jamila
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When Amir first meets his future wife, she is reading a book. What is she reading?
Wuthering Heights
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Why hasn't Amir's wife had any marriage suitors before Amir?
She ran away and eloped with an Afghan man when she was 18, and lived with him for about a month
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The previous question highlights how gender politics play an important part in the story. Give a quotation that can be used when writing about gender politics.
"I make one mistake and everyone is talking nang and namoos" / " the double standard to which Afghan society sometimes treats them"
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What do Amir and his wife have to look in on their wedding day?
A mirror
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By the time Amir gets marries, Baba is very ill. What is wring with him?
He has lung cancer
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Around this time in the story, Amir also becomes a published novelist. What is his first book about?
A father and son story set in Kabul
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The story is not told in order. What is the term for a narrative that is not told in the order that the events occur?
Non-chronological
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Rahim Khan telephones Amir from Pakistan. What does Rahim Khan ask Amir to do?
He wants Amir to visit him in Pakistan
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What is the repeated quotation that supports the previous answer?
"There is a way to be good again?"
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Rahim Khan tells the reader about how he fetched Hassan and his wife to live in Baba's old house. What is Hassan's wife called?
Farzana
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What is Hassan's son called?
Sohrab
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Why did Rahim Khan celebrate when the Taliban took over Kabul?
Their take over ended the fighting between teh factions in Kabul
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In what year did the Taliban take over Kabul?
1996
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Why does Hassan think Rahim Khan is wrong to celebrate the arrival of the Taliban?
Hassan is worried about how the Taliban will treat the Hazara people
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Give an example of how the Taliban treated the Hazaras.
The massacre of thousands of Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif
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Why does Amir eventually agree to return to Afghanistan?
Amir discovers Sohrab is his nephew because Baba slept with Ali's wife, Sanaubar
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How does the previous question link to what Baba says is the greatest crime of all?
Baba stole Ali's wife and Hassan's right to the truth
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Amir and Farid gradually become friends. What type of jokes do they tell each other?
Mullah Nasuddin jokes
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Amir visits an orphanage in his search for Hassan's son. What is the director of the orphanage called?
Zaman
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Why wasn't Hassan's son at the orphanage?
Ha had been taken by a Talib offical for money
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In order to find Hassan's son, Amir and Farid have to watch a football match. At half-time, two people are being stoned to death. Why is this?
They were accused of adultery
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Amir meets his childhood bully, Assef, again in Afghanistan. What has Assef now become?
A Talib Offical
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Amir and Assef's fight is stopped by Hassan's son. Why is Hassan's son's action significant in terms of Hassan's encounter with Assef earlier in the novel?
Sohrab takes Assef's eye outwith his slingshot, making him the 'one-eyed Assef' originally threatened by Hassan
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What does Hassan's son use to stop the fight? How does this link to Amir's conversation with Rahim Khan in Pakistan?
Sohrab uses a ball from the table legs cross - one had come unscrewed on the table where Amir sat drinking tea, just after Rahim Khan had tolf him the truth about Hassan's parentage
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List Amir's injuries from the fight.
Ruptured splee; broken ribs; punctured lung; lacerations (including top lip); orbital fracture; jaw damage
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Give the name of the nurse who helps to care for Amir in the hospital.
Aisha
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What does Amir dream about in the hospital? Why is it significant?
He dreams about wrestling a black bear - symbolises he is now more like his father, i.e. brave and strong
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Many readers argue that Amir's guilt is lifted by this fight. What is another name for having some guilt taken away?
Redemption / atonement
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Amir and Hassan's son make it to the relative safety of Pakistan. Who is Raymond Andrews? What is his job?
He works at the American Embassy
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Who is Omar Faisal? What is his job?
Immigration lawyer
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What advice does Omar Faisal give Amir?
To put Sohrab into an orphanage and return to the USA to file an orphan petition
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What huge mistake does Amir make when talking to Hassan's son about adoption?
He promises Sohrab he will never have to go back in an orphanage and then breaks that promise by suggesting Sohrab might have to go back to an orphanage while they file an orphan petition
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What does Amir's wife tell him in a telephone call after Omar Faisal has left?
Her uncle can get Sohrab a humanitarian visa so Amir can take Sohrab back to the USA while they file an orphan petition
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Why is Amir's wife's news too late?
Sohrab has already attempted suicide
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Why does Amir resort to praying in chapter 25?
He wants Sohrab to survive the suicide attempt - Amir will feel responisble for Sohrab's death as well as Hassan's if Sohrab dies
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What does Hassan's son say he wants when he is in the hospital recovering?
He wants his old life back
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What does Amir tell his wife's father about Hassan's son when they eventually get back to the USA?
He tells him the truth about his grandfather (Baba)
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Give a quotation to go with the answer to the previous question.
"You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and its Sohrab"
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When do the USA bomb Afghanistan?
2001
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Why do the USA bomb Afghanistan?
9/11
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Amir and his wife get involved in charity work in Afghanistan. What type of work do they do?
Build a hospital in Afghanistan
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What colour is the kite that Amir and Hassan's son fly at the end of the novel?
Yellow
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Quote the final line of the novel.
"I ran"
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Why does the last line of the novel link to chapter 7?
After Hassan's ****, Amir 'ran' away from his responsibility for Hassan and he spends muh of his life trying to 'run' away from this event. Now Amir is running towards his responsibilty; Sohrab
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