Kite Runner study guide exam with perfect answers 2024
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The novel begins with a flashback. What do you think is its purpose? What do you learn about the narrator? correct answers The narrator now lives in San Francisco. I have learned that there was unatoned sins that must be resolved.
Who is Hassan? What is a cleft lip? correct answers He is Amir'...
The novel begins with a flashback. What do you think is its purpose? What do you learn
about the narrator? correct answers The narrator now lives in San Francisco. I have
learned that there was unatoned sins that must be resolved.
Who is Hassan? What is a cleft lip? correct answers He is Amir's best friend, a servant
to Amir and Baba, and son of another servant Ali. A cleft lip is a physical split or
separation of the two sides of the upper lip and appears as a narrow opening or gap in
the skin of the upper lip.
How does Amir describe his home? Why do you think he elaborates this description so
much? What do the details of the family pictures in Amir's house reveal? correct
answers Amir's house has a broad entryway that is flanked by rose bushes that is led to
marble floors and wide windows The living room has curved walls with custom-built
cabins. Because Baba had built this house so that everyone in his family could live
there. An old photo of Amir's grandfather and king Nadir shows them standing over a
dead deer, a picture of Amir's parents wedding day, and a picture of Baba and Rahim
Khan holding Amir as a baby and are standing over their house.
Who is Sanaubar? How is she contracted to Amir's mother? correct answers Sanaubar
is Hassan's mother who after gave birth to him joined up with a circus group and never
came back. Sanaubar is different to Amir's mother because she is still alive while Amir's
mom died after giving birth to him.
Who is Ali? What do the neighborhood children call him? Why do they call him that?
correct answers He is Hassan's father. Neighborhood kids call him boogeyman and flat
nosed. Because of Amir's and Hassan's hazara monogoloid features.
Who is Baba? What are his values? How does he relate to extremely religious leaders?
correct answers Baba is the father of Amir and Hassan. He is known for his nickname
"Toophan agha" or "Mr.Huricane". His values are that he is a builder in Pakistan. He
calls these leaders bearded idiots and comments that Amir would not learn anything
from them.
What does Baba give to Hassan for his birthday? What does his present suggest about
his character? How does Amir react to this present? Why did the present turn out to be
ironic? correct answers He gives Hassan a plastic surgeon. Baba likes Hassan and
wants to help him. Amir is mad and thinks Hassan's surgery would hurt him a lot.
Because Hassan was born with a cleft lip baba has hired this doctor to perform surgery
on him.
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