Characters, Settings, Plot

Question 1

Ali

Answer 1

Hassan’s father; servant to Baba and Amir

Question 2

Baba

Answer 2

Amir’s father. He is described as “a force of nature” or “a bear of a man”

Question 3

Hassan

Answer 3

Servant and friend to Amir. He is Hazara, a minority group in Afghanistan

Question 4

Amir

Answer 4

main character and narrator of The Kite Runner, except in chapter 16, where Rahim Khan narrates.

Question 5

Assef

Answer 5

Pashtun/German boy who bullies Amir and Hassan, rapes Hassan and becomes a leader in the Taliban
Mother names Tanya, and she is the German one

Question 6

General Iqbal Taheri

Answer 6

Soraya’s father, a decorated general in Kabul who worked for the Ministry of Defense, and when he got to America didn’t want to work because he believed the jobs he could get would be too low for him, and would wait until Afghanistan took him back to work and provide for his family.

Question 7

Farid

Answer 7

taxicab driver who drives Amir to Kabal, man who rescues Amir from Assef and stays with him until Amir goes to Islamabad

Question 8

Kamal

Answer 8

boy who dies trying to escape in a fuel tank, father shoots himself afterwards, and a boy who was a bystander while Hassan was being assaulted

Question 9

Khala Jamila

Answer 9

Soraya’s mother, always complaining about made-up illnesses, silenced after her husband goes through a series of medical emergencies. Other name is Khanum Taheri, loves to sing but her husband tells her not to because it is an act for poor people, and they aren’t poor.

Question 10

Omar Faisal

Answer 10

Immigration lawyer who tells Amir there is very slim chance on him adopting Sohrab

Question 11

Rahim Khan

Answer 11

Baba’s friend and business partner. He is a mentor to Amir and offers him a way to “be good again” by finding Sohrab a new family.

Question 12

Sohrab

Answer 12

Son of Hassan, sexually and physically assaulted by Assef, orphaned at the age of 10. Adopte son of Amir and Soraya.

Question 13

Soraya Taheri

Answer 13

Amir’s wife, they meet at the flee market

Question 14

Sanaubar

Answer 14

Hassan’s mother, returns once Hassan moves into the hut net to Baba’s house when she know’s she’s dying and wants to spend time with the child/grandchild that she neglected

Question 15

Wali

Answer 15

A boy that’s friends/scared of Assef that helps him rape Hassan

Question 16

Zamen

Answer 16

The director of the orphanage, sacrifices everything he has for the orphanage, but lets kids be bought off to provide for the orphanage.

Question 17

The Flea Market

Answer 17

The place Baba and Amir go to sell nick-nacks that they’ve picked up before going there. An extra source of income for their family, and a gathering site for many Afghan people. This is where Amir meets Soraya/her family.

Question 18

Ghazi Stadium

Answer 18

The place where Rahim Khan was when the young Taliban member hit him on the head with his riffle. The same place that Amir went in order to meet Assef, the man holding Sohrab, where he witnessed the Taliban stone two adulteraters to death at halftime of the soccer game.

Question 19

Lake Elizabeth Park

Answer 19

In March 2002 Soraya, Amir, and Sohrab visited the lake to celebrate the first day of spring, and the Afghan New Year’s day. There was kite running at the gathering, and Amir offered to fly a kite for Sohrab, and ended up telling him about how him and Hassan used to fly kites when they were young. When they cut down the opposing kite, Amir decided to run it for Sohrab, calling out, “for you, a thousand times over,” making him smile for the first time since they were in Islamabad.

Question 20

The pomegranate tree

Answer 20

A symbol of Amir and Hassans friendship, the place where they carved “Amir and Hassan, Sultans of Kabul” into it. When Amir used the pomegranates to hurt Hassan in order to get a reaction out of him, he was destroying the last “fruit” of their friendship, proven by how the tree never bears fruit after Hassan’s rape because of the divide it put between the boys.

Question 21

Shah Faisal Mosque

Answer 21

The biggest mosque in the world, somethingthat caught Sohrab’s eye as soon as they got to Islamabad. When Sohrab runs away from Amir and his hotel room, Amir finds him there and talks to him about forgetting his parents, how it’s natural, then Amir gives him the polaroid of Hassan and Sohrab that Rahim Khan gave him. Amir comforts Sohrab about what he did to get them out of Assef’s grip, and that he isn’t dirty because of the sexual abuse he suffered while Assef was holding him. Amir asks if he wants to go to America with him.