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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 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) Tänd ett ljus.
(b) Shalwar kameez.
(c) Eid al-Fitr.
(d) Zakat.

2. With whom does Khalid recall skipping school to go to Renzo’s house to smoke cigarettes and drink his dad’s gin in Chapter 14?
(a) Nico.
(b) Mikael.
(c) Tony Banda.
(d) Tariq.

3. When Khalid encounters Masud at the showers in Chapter 17, Masud tells him that they took him from Karachi to where before bringing him to Guantanamo?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Israel.

4. How old is Khalid’s sister Aadab in Chapter 1?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

5. What sound awakens Khalid in the opening of Chapter 22?
(a) The sound of furniture being moved.
(b) The sound of birds chirping.
(c) The sound of vomiting.
(d) The sound of rap music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What “strange smell” immediately greets Khalid as he leaves the plane, finally free of his hood and earmuffs, in Chapter 16?

2. What is Niamh’s last name in the novel?

3. Niamh joined Khalid’s school when her family relocated from where, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?

4. What is the greeting that the prisoner in the next cell to Khalid’s uses to greet him each morning in Chapter 11?

5. What month and year does Khalid overhear one of the guards saying it is now in the beginning of Chapter 12?

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