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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. 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) 25 minutes.
(c) 10 and ½ minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

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

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

4. 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 cafeteria.
(b) The science lab.
(c) The computer lab.
(d) The foreign language lab.

5. What is Khalid’s friend Holgy’s real name said to be in Chapter 10?
(a) Jack.
(b) David.
(c) Eshan.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 10, “He’s Khalid—himself, not a result of any” what?

2. What is the title of Chapter 11 in the novel?

3. The woman with the American accent that questions Khalid in Chapter 6 asks him why he was traveling where last week?

4. What sound awakens Khalid in the opening of Chapter 8?

5. With whom does Khalid recall skipping school to go to Renzo’s house to smoke cigarettes and drink his dad’s gin in Chapter 14?

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 questions are asked of Khalid by Angela and Bruce in Chapter 6? How does Khalid respond?

3. What does Khalid’s father remark about on the news when he returns home from work in Chapter 1?

4. Why was the prisoner in the cell next to Khalid’s arrested, according to the narrator in Chapter 11? Where was he arrested?

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

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

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

8. What are Khalid’s impressions of Karachi and the home of his aunts in Chapter 3?

9. Where is Khalid in the opening of Chapter 6? Where is he taken?

10. Whom does Khalid meet at the new Indian grocery near his home in Chapter 2? What does this character warn Khalid about?

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