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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. 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 cafeteria.
(c) The science lab.
(d) The computer lab.

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

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

4. How many children is Masud said to have back home in Chapter 9?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Tariq’s sister Radhwa when she died?

2. How much older is Tariq than his cousin Khalid?

3. In what English city has Khalid’s dad said to have worked as a lunch chef for the past ten years, in Chapter 1?

4. What is the name of the woman who comes to question Khalid in Chapter 6 and is described as being about thirty-five, with straight brown hair?

5. How many pages does Khalid’s torturer have him sign as a confession in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. What images are displayed to Khalid during his interrogations in Chapter 14? How do these images impact Khalid?

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

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

4. What are some of the examples of films, books, etc. that Anna Perera used as research in developing the story of Guantanamo Boy, according to the Author’s Note?

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

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

7. Who is the fellow prisoner that Khalid meets in Chapter 8? How is this character’s appearance described?

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

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

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

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