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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. How many seconds does the torturer say that Khalid endured the torture in Chapter 14?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.

2. What month and year does Khalid overhear one of the guards saying it is now in the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) October, 2003.
(b) January, 2001.
(c) September, 2002.
(d) December, 2002.

3. The prisoner in the next cell to Khalid’s in Chapter 11 tells him that he was born where?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Iran.
(c) Israel.
(d) Iraq.

4. In what English city has Khalid’s dad said to have worked as a lunch chef for the past ten years, in Chapter 1?
(a) Rochdale.
(b) Westminster.
(c) Manchester.
(d) London.

5. What does “CIA” stand for?
(a) Comprehensive Identification Act.
(b) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(c) Corporate Identification Agency.
(d) The Conclusive Iridium Argument.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 9?

2. What is the address of Khalid’s home where he arrives after school in Chapter 1?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 13, the narrator states that there is nothing in the cell that holds Khalid aside from what?

4. As Khalid is aboard the plane to Guantanamo in Chapter 15, his mind keeps returning to whom, and considering whether this person is the link that has landed him in these circumstances?

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

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 think about during his flight in the beginning of Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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