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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Guantanamo Bay detention center located?
(a) Belize.
(b) Paraguay.
(c) Florida.
(d) Cuba.

2. What is the greeting that the prisoner in the next cell to Khalid’s uses to greet him each morning in Chapter 11?
(a) “Shalwar kameez.”
(b) “Tänd ett ljus.”
(c) “Zakat.”
(d) “As-salaamu alaikum.”

3. In the beginning of Chapter 22, the narrator notes that Khalid has been keeping track of days how for the last three days?
(a) By rubbing a scar into his arm.
(b) By scratching a mark on the wall by his bed.
(c) By counting each hour.
(d) By writing a mark on the notepad he’s been given.

4. What does Khalid do as the armed guard goes to take his breakfast from him in the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) He attempts to strangle the guard.
(b) He kicks the door open and flees.
(c) He makes a telephone call to his mother.
(d) He runs and leaps from the window.

5. How does Khalid say his name is actually pronounced when he is interrogated by the woman with the American accent in Chapter 6?
(a) “Kha-leed.”
(b) “Kay-lid.”
(c) “Cha-leed.”
(d) “Haleed.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Wade tells Khalid in Chapter 12 that “Camp X-Ray’s now closed and the new facility there, where you’d be going is” called what?

3. In Chapter 23, Tariq fills Khalid in on the events since they’ve been imprisoned. How many people does he say in March of 2003 marched in London against Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq?

4. When is Khalid’s birthday?

5. The military doctor that comes to examine Khalid in Chapter 23 is said to be no more than how old?

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