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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a traditional dress of South and Central Asia, especially of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it is worn by both men and women?
(a) Zakat.
(b) Shalwar kameez.
(c) Eid al-Fitr.
(d) Tänd ett ljus.

2. What illness does the fellow prisoner say he’d contracted at the time that he was arrested at the border in Chapter 8?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Lupus.
(d) Typhoid.

3. What sound awakens Khalid in the opening of Chapter 8?
(a) The screeching of furniture being moved upstairs.
(b) The coughing of one of the prisoners.
(c) The chirping of birds outside his window.
(d) The sounds of a dog tearing apart a building.

4. What is the name of Khalid’s science teacher whom he got in trouble with in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Tagg.
(b) Mr. Hanwood.
(c) Mr. Ross.
(d) Mr. Smith.

5. The woman with the American accent that questions Khalid in Chapter 6 asks him why he was traveling where last week?
(a) In England.
(b) In Morocco.
(c) In Pakistan.
(d) In Afghanistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The CIA agents that interrogate Khalid during processing in Chapter 10 say that he communicated by code with other terrorists how?

2. The fellow prisoner that Khalid meets in Chapter 8 says that he is being blamed for doing what?

3. What is the title of Chapter 10?

4. 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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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