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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 phrase that Khalid was taught in school in order to learn the color spectrum?
(a) “Roll over your gross but interesting vest.”
(b) “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain.”
(c) “Roy G. Biv."
(d) “Rowland ordered yesterday’s gravy but ingested varmints.”

2. What is the title of Chapter 23?
(a) “Every Shred.”
(b) “Water Tricks.”
(c) “News.”
(d) “Lee-Andy.”

3. What is the name of the “pretty woman in her early twenties with a reddish ponytail, nice smile and perfect teeth” that appears before Khalid in Chapter 22?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Niamh.
(c) Lee-Andy.
(d) Angela.

4. Of whose capture does Khalid’s new lawyer tell him about in Chapter 24?
(a) George W. Bush’s.
(b) Alex Jones’s.
(c) Saddam Hussein’s.
(d) Osama Bin Laden’s.

5. What is the title of Chapter 18?
(a) "Easter."
(b) “Every Shred.”
(c) "Sweat."
(d) “Processing.”

Short Answer Questions

1. When the plane lands in Chapter 27, a plainclothes policeman boards and tells Khalid quietly, “I am placing you under arrest under” what?

2. When does Tariq say he was first brought to Guantanamo Bay Prison in Chapter 23?

3. What is Khalid given to eat once he has boarded the plane in Chapter 26?

4. Where does Khalid learn the plane will be landing in Chapter 27?

5. What “strange smell” immediately greets Khalid as he leaves the plane, finally free of his hood and earmuffs, in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Khalid to feel guilty in Chapter 25? What does Khalid receive in the mail in this chapter?

2. Who greets Khalid in the interrogation room in Chapter 26? What information do these characters relate?

3. What does Khalid learn from Tariq of his experiences after arrest in Chapter 23?

4. Whom does Khalid encounter on his way to the barber in Chapter 21? What exchange is described?

5. Whom does Khalid meet when he is taken to the recreation area at the prison in Chapter 20? How is the recreation area described?

6. What leads to Khalid’s flashback in Chapter 28? Who comes to console Khalid?

7. Who interrupts Khalid from the act of self-abuse in Chapter 22? How is this character described?

8. What does the fellow prisoner tell Khalid about his experiences after Karachi in Chapter 17?

9. Whom does Khalid meet in Chapter 24? What information is related to Khalid from this character?

10. Where is the airplane when Khalid awakens in Chapter 27? Where does Khalid learn he will be going?

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