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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. Where do the American military men tell Khalid he is going in Chapter 26?
(a) Guantanamo Bay.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Home.
(d) Morocco.

2. How old does Khalid’s lawyer say he is now in Chapter 24?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

3. Which of the prisoners that volunteers to slop out the rooms is described in Chapter 19, “With big, mad eyes, he looks something like 50 Cent but he doesn’t rap”?
(a) Niamh.
(b) Shafi.
(c) Bruce.
(d) Anthony.

4. What is the title of Chapter 22?
(a) “News.”
(b) “Red Cross.”
(c) “The Jinn.”
(d) “Processing.”

5. When the plane lands in Chapter 27, a plainclothes policeman boards and tells Khalid quietly, “I am placing you under arrest under” what?
(a) “The Department of Homeland Security.”
(b) “The Prevention of Terrorism Act.”
(c) “The Geneva Convention.”
(d) “The MI5.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who greets Khalid on the airplane in Chapter 26?

2. What are the names of Khalid’s old mates from primary school that lead him out of the sports store when Khalid has an anxiety attack in Chapter 29?

3. What is the title of Chapter 27?

4. What is the name of the man who says his job is “to help [Khalid] settle back into normal life as soon as possible” in Chapter 27?

5. Tariq tells Khalid in Chapter 23 that he told the people who imprisoned him that weapons of mass destruction were hidden where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who greets Khalid on the airplane in Chapter 26? What conversation takes place between Khalid and this character during the flight?

2. What causes Khalid to not answer the calls from the next prison cell in Chapter 23?

3. How is Khalid’s arrival in Guantanamo Bay Prison described in the beginning of Chapter 16?

4. What does Mr. Tagg ask of Khalid in Chapter 28? How does Khalid respond?

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

6. How is Khalid’s psychological state described in Chapter 19?

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

8. What information does the author relate of the imprisonment of children in the novel’s Afterword?

9. How is Khalid’s speech at the assembly described in Chapter 29? How do the students respond?

10. How is Khalid’s psychological state illustrated in the beginning of Chapter 21?

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