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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 kicks the door open and flees.
(b) He runs and leaps from the window.
(c) He attempts to strangle the guard.
(d) He makes a telephone call to his mother.

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

3. What color suit is Khalid changed into after the guards wake him and give him food in Chapter 15?
(a) Orange.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

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) “Zakat.”
(b) “Tänd ett ljus.”
(c) “As-salaamu alaikum.”
(d) “Shalwar kameez.”

5. The fellow prisoner that Khalid meets in Chapter 8 says that when he was apprehended by the authorities, he had how much money on his person?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $1,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 10?

3. The narrator says of Khalid in the beginning of Chapter 15, “All night long, under the constant bright lights, the picture at the front of Khalid’s mind is the painting by” whom?

4. 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?

5. Where in Pakistan did Khalid’s father grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the man in the cell next to Khalid’s in Chapter 11? Where is this character from?

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

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

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

7. What does Khalid consider about his own situation after speaking with the fellow prisoner in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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