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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The soldier named Michael tells Khalid in Chapter 12 that he’s what?
(a) A cadet.
(b) A retired colonel.
(c) An intern.
(d) A reservist.

2. 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?
(a) The foreign language lab.
(b) The computer lab.
(c) The science lab.
(d) The cafeteria.

3. Khalid’s father says that it has been how long since 9/11 “and the world is getting madder by the day” in Chapter 1?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 6 months.

4. Khalid’s father is said to have taught Khalid how to do the dishes after tea at what age?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

5. The Pakistani-looking man who interrogates Khalid in Chapter 6 takes what item from Khalid’s possession when he first speaks to him?
(a) His necklace.
(b) His ring.
(c) His watch.
(d) His bracelet.

6. How often is the Red Cross guy said to come by for letters from the prisoners in the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Once a week.
(b) Once a month.
(c) Twice a week.
(d) Every two weeks.

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

8. 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) Kandahar.
(c) Islamabad.
(d) Fallujah.

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

10. How old is Khalid’s sister Gul in Chapter 1?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

11. What is the title of Chapter 9?
(a) “Masud.”
(b) “Karachi.”
(c) “Blood’s Thicker than Water.”
(d) “To Kandahar.”

12. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a traditional dress of South and Central Asia, especially of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it is worn by both men and women?
(a) Zakat.
(b) Shalwar kameez.
(c) Tänd ett ljus.
(d) Eid al-Fitr.

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

14. The fellow prisoner that Khalid meets in Chapter 8 tells him that he was apprehended at the border to what country?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Israel.

15. Khalid recalls collecting money for charity for what country, then stealing the money, in Chapter 14?
(a) Bosnia.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Khalid confuse for “enemy combatant” when he first hears the fellow prisoner use the phrase in Chapter 8?

2. When Khalid googles “Karachi” in Chapter 2, he discovers it has a population of how many people?

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

4. 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?

5. The narrator says of Khalid in the beginning of Chapter 15, “All night long, under the constant bright lights, the picture at the front of Khalid’s mind is the painting by” whom?

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