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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Khalid do as the armed guard goes to take his breakfast from him in the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) He attempts to strangle the guard.
(b) He makes a telephone call to his mother.
(c) He kicks the door open and flees.
(d) He runs and leaps from the window.

2. What is the name of the Irish girl at school that Khalid is said to fancy early in the novel?
(a) Aadab
(b) Niamh.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Gul.

3. As Khalid considers his life prior to his imprisonment in Chapter 18, he thinks, “Although he likes to give the impression he’s all right with girls, in actual fact he’s just as awkward and lacking in confidence as” whom?
(a) “Holgy.”
(b) “Mikael.”
(c) “Tariq.”
(d) “Nico.”

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. How old was Niamh when she joined Khalid’s school, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Khalid’s friend Holgy’s real name said to be in Chapter 10?

2. Khalid learns that the prisoner in the next cell to his is named what, in Chapter 11?

3. What word does Khalid use in Chapter 16 to refer to “acts of charity to help people in need”?

4. What illness does the fellow prisoner say he’d contracted at the time that he was arrested at the border in Chapter 8?

5. The man who introduces himself as James when Khalid is being interrogated says he’s from what organization in Chapter 6?

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