1. 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.

2. Where does Tariq say he was held for over a year in Chapter 23?
(a) Kandahar.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Bagram.

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

4. The two men that Khalid has spent the flight sandwiched between spent the entire flight doing what, in Chapter 10?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Cursing.
(c) Vowing revenge.
(d) Praying

5. Niamh joined Khalid’s school when her family relocated from where, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?
(a) Wales.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) The US.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the prisoners that volunteers to slop out the rooms is described in Chapter 19, “With big, mad eyes, he looks something like 50 Cent but he doesn’t rap”?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 21, the library man returns and leaves Khalid with two Reader’s Digest books and what magazine?

3. For how long does Tariq say the hunger strike went on when he first arrived at Guantanamo in Chapter 23?

4. What is the name of the school that Khalid attends in Chapter 1?

5. What is the title of Chapter 17?

(see the answer key)

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