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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in England does Khalid’s family live in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Rochdale.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Bradford.

2. How much older is Tariq than his cousin Khalid?
(a) 1 year old.
(b) 3 years old.
(c) 5 years old.
(d) 2 years older.

3. 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 ring.
(b) His necklace.
(c) His bracelet.
(d) His watch.

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

5. What word does Khalid confuse for “enemy combatant” when he first hears the fellow prisoner use the phrase in Chapter 8?
(a) “Incompetent.”
(b) “Participant.”
(c) “Endangered.”
(d) “Incoherent.”

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

7. What are the names of Khalid’s aunts whom his family visits in Chapter 3?
(a) Masua, Abdula, and Gul.
(b) Fatima, Rehana, and Roshan.
(c) Abdula, Roshana, and Fatima.
(d) Aadab, Roshana, and Gul.

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

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

10. How many pages does Khalid’s torturer have him sign as a confession in Chapter 14?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

11. What is Khalid’s last name in the novel?
(a) Hanwood.
(b) Al-Dossadi.
(c) Ahmed.
(d) Al-Farran.

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) Tänd ett ljus.
(b) Zakat.
(c) Eid al-Fitr.
(d) Shalwar kameez.

13. Where in Pakistan did Khalid’s father grow up?
(a) Karachi.
(b) Mecca.
(c) Medina.
(d) Kandahar.

14. What is the title of Chapter 10?
(a) “Karachi.”
(b) “Masud.”
(c) “To Kandahar.”
(d) “Processing.”

15. What does “CIA” stand for?
(a) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(b) The Conclusive Iridium Argument.
(c) Corporate Identification Agency.
(d) Comprehensive Identification Act.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The fellow prisoner that Khalid meets in Chapter 8 tells him that he was apprehended at the border to what country?

4. What does Khalid recall stealing from a Polish guy at the market during his delirium in Chapter 14?

5. 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”?

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