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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 name of the man with the library cart that offers Khalid used books to read in Chapter 20?
(a) Bruce.
(b) Shafi.
(c) Will.
(d) Anthony.

2. What is Tariq’s assigned number at Guantanamo?
(a) 289.
(b) 123.
(c) 324.
(d) 372.

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

4. 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 Prevention of Terrorism Act.”
(b) “The Geneva Convention.”
(c) “The MI5.”
(d) “The Department of Homeland Security.”

5. 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 counting each hour.
(b) By scratching a mark on the wall by his bed.
(c) By writing a mark on the notepad he’s been given.
(d) By rubbing a scar into his arm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Khalid encounters Masud at the showers in Chapter 17, Masud tells him that they took him from Karachi to where before bringing him to Guantanamo?

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

4. When Khalid gets on the plane in Chapter 26, he sees what looks like another newly released detainee reading what periodical?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conversation takes place between Khalid and Tariq when Khalid is brought back to his cell in Chapter 24?

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

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

5. What event brings Khalid some respite from his situation in Chapter 20?

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

7. What news does the food trolley man relate to the prisoners in Chapter 16? How do they respond?

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

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

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

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