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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many minutes are the prisoners led outside and allowed to take in the sun in the chain gang in Chapter 12?
(a) 4 and ½ minutes.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 25 minutes.
(d) 10 and ½ minutes.

2. How long ago does Khalid learn the Madrid train bombings took place as he rides on the plane in Chapter 26?
(a) 2 days ago.
(b) 1 week ago.
(c) 2 weeks ago.
(d) 3 weeks ago.

3. When does Tariq say he was first brought to Guantanamo Bay Prison in Chapter 23?
(a) March, 2003.
(b) March, 2004.
(c) January, 2001.
(d) February, 2003.

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

5. The voice that speaks to Khalid after he descends the plane in Chapter 16 says, “Welcome to Guantanamo Bay Prison. You’re now the property of” whom?
(a) “The US Marine Corps.”
(b) “The US Homeland Security Agency.”
(c) “The TSA.”
(d) “The US Navy Corps.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is the name of the “pretty woman in her early twenties with a reddish ponytail, nice smile and perfect teeth” that appears before Khalid in Chapter 22?

4. How many suicides does Khalid’s lawyer say there were last week at Camp Echo in Chapter 24?

5. 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?”

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