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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 10?

2. One of the American CIA agents asks Khalid when he last saw what individual in Chapter 10?

3. What is the capital city of Pakistan?

4. What is the name of Khalid’s science teacher whom he got in trouble with in Chapter 1?

5. What is the title of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What images are displayed to Khalid during his interrogations in Chapter 14? How do these images impact Khalid?

2. Why was the prisoner in the cell next to Khalid’s arrested, according to the narrator in Chapter 11? Where was he arrested?

3. How is the day-to-day life of Khalid and the other prisoners described in the beginning of Chapter 12?

4. What does Khalid recall from a classroom conversation about the Spanish Inquisition in Chapter 15?

5. How is Khalid’s processing described in Chapter 10? What does Khalid undergo upon arrival?

6. Where is Khalid in the opening of Chapter 6? Where is he taken?

7. Where is Khalid taken after processing in Chapter 10? What questions is he asked?

8. What happens after Abdul has been returned to his cell after interrogation in Chapter 12?

9. Whom does Khalid meet after being taken to the showers in Chapter 11?

10. How is the process of waterboarding described in Chapter 14? How does Khalid respond to this torture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of Guantanamo Bay Prison. When was Guantanamo Bay Prison established? How did the international community respond to the establishment of the prison? What atrocities have been reported within the confines of the detainment center? Why is Guantanamo Prison still in operation today?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the character of Wade in Chapter 12. How old is this character? Where is he from? What are Khalid’s impressions of Wade? What happens to Wade in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrative point of view established in Chapter 1 of the novel. Why do you think the author chooses to tell the story from a third-person narrator? Is the narrator’s perspective limited or omniscient? Is the story told in the past, present, or future tense? How do these choices affect the reader?

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