Amir

Question 1

Looking back now,

Answer 1

I realize I had been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty six years’

Question 2

‘I became what

Answer 2

I am today at the age of twelve’

Question 3

‘In the end,

Answer 3

I ran. I ran because i was a coward’

Question 4

‘He was just

Answer 4

a Hazara, wasn’t he?’

Question 5

‘I opened my mouth,

Answer 5

Almost said something. Almost. The rest of my like might have turned out differently if i had. But i didnt. I just watched. Paralyzed.’

Question 6

‘Maybe hassan was

Answer 6

The price i had to pay, the lamb i had to slay, to win Baba’

Question 7

‘I already hated

Answer 7

all the kids he was building the orphanage for; sometimes i wished they’d all died along with their parents’

Question 8

Raping children?

Answer 8

Flogging women for wearing high heels? Massacring Hazaras? All in the name of Islam?’

Question 9

‘And one more thing

Answer 9

General Sahib’ I said. ‘You will never again refer to him as a ‘Hazara boy’ in my oresence. He has a name and it’s Sohrab’

Question 10

‘For you,

Answer 10

a thousand times over’ I heard myself say’