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

2. How often is the Red Cross guy said to come by for letters from the prisoners in the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Once a month.
(d) Every two weeks.

3. What is Khalid’s last name in the novel?
(a) Al-Dossadi.
(b) Ahmed.
(c) Hanwood.
(d) Al-Farran.

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

5. What classmate of Khalid’s, who lives over the music shop, does he recall having said of the torture during the Spanish Inquisition in Chapter 15, ““It’s a stupid way of finding anything out. Whenever my brother twists my arm up my back, it hurts so bad I say anything he wants me to just to get him to stop. So what’s the point in torturing someone if all you get is lies?”
(a) Angela.
(b) Nico.
(c) Niamh.
(d) Jacinda Parker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Khalid recalls collecting money for charity for what country, then stealing the money, in Chapter 14?

2. What color suit is Khalid changed into after the guards wake him and give him food in Chapter 15?

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

4. Wade tells Khalid in Chapter 12 that “Camp X-Ray’s now closed and the new facility there, where you’d be going is” called what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Khalid think about during his flight in the beginning of Chapter 3?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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