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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. When Khalid googles “Karachi” in Chapter 2, he discovers it has a population of how many people?
(a) 15 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 23 million.
(d) 3 million.

2. 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?
(a) “Camp Edwards.”
(b) “Camp Delta.”
(c) “Camp Echo.”
(d) “Camp Stewart.”

3. Where does Khalid’s cousin Tariq live in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Lahore, Pakistan.
(b) Manchester, England.
(c) Rabat, Morocco.
(d) Islamabad, Pakistan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 13?

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”?

3. Khalid’s father is said to have taught Khalid how to do the dishes after tea at what age?

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

5. What is the name of the restaurant where Khalid’s father works as a lunch chef in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the author illustrate Khalid’s psychological deterioration in Chapter 13?

7. Where is Khalid taken in Chapter 9? By what modes of transportation is he relocated?

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

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

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

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