Chapter 16 Flashcards

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How did Ali die?

A

due to a land mind 2 years earlier

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What is the name of Hassan’s wife?

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Farzana

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Where do Hassan and his wife, Farzana move to?

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the old hut, refusing to live in the house

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Who is Sanaubar?

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a disfigured old woman, Hassan’s mother

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Who was Sohrab named after?

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the hero from the Shahnamah, the gift given by Ali and Hassan on Amir’s 13th birthday

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What year do the Taliban arrive?

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1996

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How does Hassan respond to the Taliban in 1996?

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“God help the Hazara’s now”

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after how many months since their arrival did the Taliban ban kite flying?

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2 weeks

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In what year did the Taliban “massacred the Hazara’s in Mazar-i-Sharif”?

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1998

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What is significant about the fact that Hassan is still more concerned about Amir’s welfare than his own?

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as this serves as a sharp contrast to Amir’s reaction every time he has heard a mention of Hassan’s name

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How does Rahim Khan comment in Hassan’s reaction to his mothers return?

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“I guess some stories do not need telling”

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What is important with Rahim Khan’s statement to Hassan’s reaction to his mothers return
“i guess some stories do not need telling”?

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it is important as some stories do need telling, such as the novel itself as many readers would have otherwise remained blissfully unaware of life in Afghanistan. A novel like this puts a face and a name to citizen that otherwise exist only in newspaper headlines, programs and Interest reports . This chapter, chapter 16, makes perfectly clear that one of the most important reasons for this book is to share historical information in a compelling manner. While the story remains fiction, the narrative is indeed fact.

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Rahim Khan celebrated the defeat of who by the Taliban, which he later found Hassan looking serious and worried about for the fate of the Hazara’s.

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Mujahedin

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in 1998 where did the Taliban massacre the Hazara’s?

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Masseur-i-Sharif, a Shi’a city in northern Afghanistan

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What did the Hazara’s become and why?

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The Hazara’s became the social enemy of a militant regime; and thus the distaste of those in Amir’s childhood such as Assef, became the rulers of a state ran by an ideology centred around the religious sovereignty of the Pashtuns.

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