1. The fellow prisoner that Khalid meets in Chapter 8 says that he is being blamed for doing what?
(a) Plotting to kill the President.
(b) Raping a woman.
(c) Bombing the World Trade Towers.
(d) Bombing a village.

2. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) “Missing.”
(b) “Karachi.”
(c) “Blood’s Thicker than Water.”
(d) “Easter.”

3. Of what city does the fellow prisoner say in Chapter 8, “is very sad there. Bombing every day. Women, children, dying in streets. Explosions going all time”?
(a) Kabul.
(b) Islamabad.
(c) Kandahar.
(d) Fallujah.

4. The prisoner in the cell next to Khalid’s tells him in Chapter 11 that “Hezbollah” means what?
(a) “Party of God.”
(b) “Processing.”
(c) “To Kandahar.”
(d) “Red Cross.”

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?
(a) Tariq.
(b) Masud Al-Dossadi.
(c) Nico.
(d) Abdul Al-Farran.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?”

2. Who is Khalid’s history teacher that has taught him about Guantanamo Bay in Chapter 1?

3. 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?

4. What is the title of Chapter 14?

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

(see the answer key)

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