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

2. 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) Islamabad.
(b) Fallujah.
(c) Kabul.
(d) Kandahar.

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

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) “To Kandahar.”
(b) “Processing.”
(c) “Sleep.”
(d) “Masud.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What grade has Khalid received for his essay plan on the Spanish Inquisition in Chapter 2?

2. The fellow prisoner that Khalid meets in Chapter 8 says that he is being blamed for doing what?

3. What is the name of the Irish girl at school that Khalid is said to fancy early in the novel?

4. The peanuts that Khalid receives in his lunch in Chapter 12 are from where?

5. What is the title of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Khalid doing when his character is introduced in Chapter 1? What worry concerns Khalid in the opening of the novel?

2. What does Khalid recall from a classroom conversation about the Spanish Inquisition in Chapter 15?

3. How is the process of waterboarding described in Chapter 14? How does Khalid respond to this torture?

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 is Khalid’s processing described in Chapter 10? What does Khalid undergo upon arrival?

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

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

8. What does Khalid do when the guard brings him breakfast in Chapter 7?

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

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

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