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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Khalid’s history teacher that has taught him about Guantanamo Bay in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Jackson.
(b) Mr. Williams.
(c) Mr. Hanwood.
(d) Mr. Tagg.

3. What is Chapter 8’s title in the novel?
(a) “Easter.”
(b) “Masud.”
(c) “Missing.”
(d) “Karachi.”

4. What is the greeting that the prisoner in the next cell to Khalid’s uses to greet him each morning in Chapter 11?
(a) “As-salaamu alaikum.”
(b) “Shalwar kameez.”
(c) “Zakat.”
(d) “Tänd ett ljus.”

5. What grade has Khalid received for his essay plan on the Spanish Inquisition in Chapter 2?
(a) B+.
(b) B-.
(c) A-.
(d) C+.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the capital city of Pakistan?

2. What sacred place is the Prophet Muhammad said to be buried in?

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 2 begin? What news does Khalid learn from his mother in the opening of the chapter?

2. What happens after Abdul has been returned to his cell after interrogation in Chapter 12?

3. What does Anna Perera claim inspired her to write Guantanamo Boy in the Author’s Note?

4. Where is Khalid taken after processing in Chapter 10? What questions is he asked?

5. What does the first interrogator ask Khalid in Chapter 6? How does Khalid respond?

6. How is Khalid’s situation and condition described in the beginning of Chapter 15?

7. How is the day-to-day life of Khalid and the other prisoners described in the beginning of Chapter 12?

8. What does Khalid find when he returns from unsuccessfully searching for his father in Chapter 5?

9. How is the incident at the science lab explained in Chapter 1? Who was responsible for the incident?

10. Whom does Khalid meet after being taken to the showers in Chapter 11?

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