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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Khalid’s father is said to have taught Khalid how to do the dishes after tea at what age?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

3. 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) “As-salaamu alaikum.”
(c) “Zakat.”
(d) “Tänd ett ljus.”

4. What is the capital city of Pakistan?
(a) Islamabad.
(b) Peshawar.
(c) Lahore.
(d) Karachi.

5. What chant breaks out in the prison, beginning with Abdul after he returns from his interrogation in Chapter 12?
(a) “Death to the West!”
(b) “Let me go!”
(c) “Death to America!”
(d) “I want a lawyer!”

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “CIA” stand for?

2. What is the name of the Irish girl at school that Khalid is said to fancy early in the novel?

3. The prisoner in the cell next to Khalid’s tells him in Chapter 11 that “Hezbollah” means what?

4. What does Khalid recall stealing from a Polish guy at the market during his delirium in Chapter 14?

5. What does Khalid do as the armed guard goes to take his breakfast from him in the beginning of Chapter 7?

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