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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of music was blaring in the isolation room that Khalid is taken to in Chapter 22?
(a) Rock music.
(b) Classical music.
(c) Polka music.
(d) Jazz music.

2. Of what city does the fellow prisoner say in Chapter 8, “is very sad there. Bombing every day. Women, children, dying in streets. Explosions going all time”?
(a) Kabul.
(b) Fallujah.
(c) Kandahar.
(d) Islamabad.

3. As Khalid is aboard the plane to Guantanamo in Chapter 15, his mind keeps returning to whom, and considering whether this person is the link that has landed him in these circumstances?
(a) Mikael.
(b) Aadab.
(c) Jim.
(d) Tariq.

4. What is the name of the “scruffy handcuffed man sitting cross-legged on the bare concrete floor” in the room that the guards take Khalid to in Chapter 8?
(a) Masud Al-Dossadi.
(b) Nico.
(c) Tariq.
(d) Abdul Al-Farran.

5. Khalid recalls collecting money for charity for what country, then stealing the money, in Chapter 14?
(a) Bosnia.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Khalid confuse for “enemy combatant” when he first hears the fellow prisoner use the phrase in Chapter 8?

2. As Khalid is being shaved, stripped and processed at Kandahar in Chapter 10, he sees how many other children in the line that look even younger than him?

3. How often is the Red Cross guy said to come by for letters from the prisoners in the beginning of Chapter 12?

4. What color suit is Khalid changed into after the guards wake him and give him food in Chapter 15?

5. What is the date that one of the guards finally calls out when Khalid keeps asking for the date in the beginning of Chapter 22?

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