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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 title of Chapter 17?
(a) “To Kandahar.”
(b) “Sleep.”
(c) “Sweat.”
(d) “Lights.”
2. What does Khalid read at the assembly in Chapter 29?
(a) A letter from his mother he received while in prison.
(b) A letter that his lawyer wrote in order to have him freed.
(c) A letter Khalid wrote from Guantanamo Bay Prison.
(d) A letter written from Nico while he was in prison.
3. What is the name of the “pretty woman in her early twenties with a reddish ponytail, nice smile and perfect teeth” that appears before Khalid in Chapter 22?
(a) Niamh.
(b) Angela.
(c) Sharon.
(d) Lee-Andy.
4. Masud describes being hung from the walls and beaten with what in Chapter 17?
(a) A strap attached to a wooden handle.
(b) A cat-o-nine-tails.
(c) A brick attached to a metal rod.
(d) A lead pipe.
5. What is the name of the fellow recently released detainee that is taken along with Khalid to a waiting van after they leave the airplane in Chapter 27?
(a) Ashwin Al-Asmari.
(b) Masud Al-Dossadi.
(c) Ali Abaza.
(d) Abdul Al-Farran.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the second American military man who is introduced to Khalid in the small room in Chapter 26?
2. Who greets Khalid on the airplane in Chapter 26?
3. What do the students at the assembly begin chanting after Khalid has finished his speech in Chapter 29?
4. What number is Khalid assigned when he arrives at Guantanamo Bay Prison in Chapter 16?
5. What is Niamh’s last name in the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whom does Khalid encounter on his way to the barber in Chapter 21? What exchange is described?
2. What information does the author relate of the imprisonment of children in the novel’s Afterword?
3. What does the fellow prisoner tell Khalid about his experiences after Karachi in Chapter 17?
4. How is Khalid’s arrival home described in Chapter 28? How does Khalid respond to the experience of arriving home?
5. How is Khalid’s arrival in his room described in Chapter 27? Whom does Khalid speak to here?
6. Where is the airplane when Khalid awakens in Chapter 27? Where does Khalid learn he will be going?
7. What news does the food trolley man relate to the prisoners in Chapter 16? How do they respond?
8. What conversation takes place between Khalid and Tariq when Khalid is brought back to his cell in Chapter 24?
9. What causes Khalid to feel guilty in Chapter 25? What does Khalid receive in the mail in this chapter?
10. Whom does Khalid encounter at the communal showers in Chapter 17? What is his first impression when he sees this character?
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