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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 breakfast is brought to Khalid on the plane in the beginning of Chapter 27?
(a) A pancake, coffee, and a Danish.
(b) A bread roll, an omelet, and baked beans.
(c) A piece of cake, a donut, and a cup of tea.
(d) Rice, potatoes, and tuna fish.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 22, the narrator notes that Khalid has been keeping track of days how for the last three days?
(a) By writing a mark on the notepad he’s been given.
(b) By rubbing a scar into his arm.
(c) By counting each hour.
(d) By scratching a mark on the wall by his bed.

3. What is the title of Chapter 27?
(a) “Karachi.”
(b) “Every Shred.”
(c) “Red Cross.”
(d) “Touchdown.”

4. Masud describes being hung from the walls and beaten with what in Chapter 17?
(a) A cat-o-nine-tails.
(b) A lead pipe.
(c) A strap attached to a wooden handle.
(d) A brick attached to a metal rod.

5. Who in Khalid’s family does he learn has died on the plane ride in Chapter 26?
(a) Khalid’s brother.
(b) Uncle Amir.
(c) Khalid’s sister.
(d) Khalid’s mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tariq’s assigned number at Guantanamo?

2. Where did Khalid first meet Niamh last year, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?

3. What is the name of the first American military man that introduces himself to Khalid in Chapter 26?

4. What is the phrase that Khalid was taught in school in order to learn the color spectrum?

5. In Chapter 23, Tariq fills Khalid in on the events since they’ve been imprisoned. How many people does he say in March of 2003 marched in London against Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq?

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

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

4. Where does Khalid encounter Angela and Bruce in Chapter 18? What do these characters ask Khalid?

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

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

7. Who arrives outside of Khalid’s cell in the beginning of Chapter 26? What orders is Khalid given?

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

9. What question does Khalid repeatedly ask in the beginning of Chapter 22? Why?

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

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