The Kite Runner

What made Hassan "weep like a child all night?"

• He heard that Baba had died

• He was thinking of Amir

• Hassan wanted to go home

• He wept for his childhood

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who arrived at Rahim Khans, and Hassan's door "covered in a sky blue burqa?"

• The woman who does the laudry

• Hassan's long lost sister

• A woman delivering groceries

• Sanaubar, Hassan's long lost mother

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What had Sohrab become deadly with, like his father?

• a slingshot

• kite flying

• boxing

• House keeping

What did Hassan and Sohrab have hanging all over their walls?

• Farsi art

• Sorhab's paintings

• newspapers

• Kites they had won

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Who is Farzana?

• Amir's wife

• Rhaim Khans wife

• Hassans wife

• Baba's wife

Author of The Kite Runner?

• Khaled Hosseini

• Harper Lee

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• William Shakespeare

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does the way Soraya is treated reveal about Afghan culture?

• Women are treated like children before they are married

• Women are not expected to be able to read

• Women bring more shame to their families than men

• Women who stray from subjugation are not tolerated by society

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

In the Kite Runner, the word morose used in the quote, “he shirked the austere and nearly morose stance of older singers and actually smiled when he sang…” refers to...

• dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.

• sullen and ill-tempered.

• easily annoyed or made angry.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In the Kite Runner, monarchy was used in the quote,“…the constitutional monarchy had been abolished…

• office that has been gotten through force, and a monarchy or crown is reign that is passed from one generation to another.

• a form of government with a monarch at the head.

• a political system in which laws, policies, leaders, and major state undertakings are decided directly or indirectly by the citizens.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In The Kite Runner, sociopath is referenced in the quote, “a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath,” and refers to whom?

• Amir

• Ali

• Assef

• Hassan

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3