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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The peanuts that Khalid receives in his lunch in Chapter 12 are from where?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Florida.
(c) California.
(d) Texas.

2. What classmate of Khalid’s, who lives over the music shop, does he recall having said of the torture during the Spanish Inquisition in Chapter 15, ““It’s a stupid way of finding anything out. Whenever my brother twists my arm up my back, it hurts so bad I say anything he wants me to just to get him to stop. So what’s the point in torturing someone if all you get is lies?”
(a) Jacinda Parker.
(b) Angela.
(c) Niamh.
(d) Nico.

3. What is Chapter 5’s title?
(a) “Blood’s Thicker than Water.”
(b) “Missing.”
(c) “Easter.”
(d) “Karachi.”

4. 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) Tariq.
(b) Aadab.
(c) Mikael.
(d) Jim.

5. What is the name of the American soldier wearing jeans and a white shirt that holds out his hand to Khalid during the processing “as if welcoming the shivering, naked Khalid to Afghanistan” in Chapter 10?
(a) Anthony.
(b) Bruce.
(c) Jack.
(d) Jim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the capital city of Pakistan?

2. For how many minutes are the prisoners led outside and allowed to take in the sun in the chain gang in Chapter 12?

3. How does Khalid say his name is actually pronounced when he is interrogated by the woman with the American accent in Chapter 6?

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

5. As Khalid walks home from school in Chapter 1, he worries about his father receiving a letter from the school about his misbehavior. In what school room was Khalid misbehaving?

(see the answer key)

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