The Kite Runner

1. a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries
3. an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States
5. lip a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip
6. Amir's wife
7. city in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass
11. formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name
14. Amir's servent and bestfriend
16. an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
17. the capital and largest city of Afghanistan
19. tree the tree Amir and Hassen would read under everyday
21. a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government
23. Amir's father

2. Muslim name for the one and only God
4. leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India
6. Hassan's son who Amir and his wife adopt and take back to America to live with them
8. a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones
9. the basic unit of money in Afghanistan
10. a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood
12. the main character of the book
13. a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip
15. a public institution for the care of orphans
17. cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
18. the thing Assef and his friends would call Ali, Hassan's father
20. the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms
22. a loose garment worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan