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

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

3. What sound awakens Khalid in the opening of Chapter 22?
(a) The sound of vomiting.
(b) The sound of birds chirping.
(c) The sound of rap music.
(d) The sound of furniture being moved.

4. 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?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Israel.
(c) Lebanon.
(d) Iraq.

5. What term from the narrative refers to the breaking of the fast of Ramadan?
(a) Zakat.
(b) Shalwar kameez.
(c) Tänd ett ljus.
(d) Eid al-Fitr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tariq tells Khalid that he lied to the authorities and said that Khalid’s father was what, in Chapter 23?

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

3. At which camp does Tariq say he was held before he was transferred to Camp Delta in Chapter 23?

4. Who is waiting at Khalid’s home when he returns after looking for Nico in Chapter 28?

5. What is the title of Chapter 27?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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