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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 does the fellow recently released detainee tell Khalid he is from as they are taken from the plane to a van in Chapter 27?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Chattington.
(c) Winchester.
(d) Birmingham.

2. Who is waiting at Khalid’s home when he returns after looking for Nico in Chapter 28?
(a) Mr. Stewart.
(b) Mr. Tagg.
(c) Mr. Hanwood.
(d) Mr. Peterson.

3. What do the students at the assembly begin chanting after Khalid has finished his speech in Chapter 29?
(a) “Death to America!”
(b) “End racial profiling!”
(c) “Freedom of speech!”
(d) “Close down Guantanamo!”

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

5. When Khalid gets on the plane in Chapter 26, he sees what looks like another newly released detainee reading what periodical?
(a) The Chicago Tribune.
(b) The Daily Mirror.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Washington Street Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound awakens Khalid in the opening of Chapter 22?

2. What is the date that one of the guards finally calls out when Khalid keeps asking for the date in the beginning of Chapter 22?

3. When is Khalid’s birthday?

4. Tariq tells Khalid that he heard about the capture of the Australian gamer where when they took him there, in Chapter 22?

5. What is the name of the man who sits next to Angela as she interrogates Khalid in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Whom does Khalid encounter at the communal showers in Chapter 17? What is his first impression when he sees this character?

3. How is Khalid’s arrival home described in Chapter 28? How does Khalid respond to the experience of arriving home?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is Khalid’s arrival in his room described in Chapter 27? Whom does Khalid speak to here?

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

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