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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. How many suicides does Khalid’s lawyer say there were last week at Camp Echo in Chapter 24?
2. What does Khalid read at the assembly in Chapter 29?
3. Tariq tells Khalid that he heard about the capture of the Australian gamer where when they took him there, in Chapter 22?
4. What is the title of Chapter 18?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whom does Khalid encounter on his way to the barber in Chapter 21? What exchange is described?
2. What leads to Khalid’s flashback in Chapter 28? Who comes to console Khalid?
3. Where is the airplane when Khalid awakens in Chapter 27? Where does Khalid learn he will be going?
4. What conversation takes place between Khalid and Tariq when Khalid is brought back to his cell in Chapter 24?
5. Who greets Khalid in the interrogation room in Chapter 26? What information do these characters relate?
6. Who interrupts Khalid from the act of self-abuse in Chapter 22? How is this character described?
7. What does the fellow prisoner tell Khalid about his experiences after Karachi in Chapter 17?
8. What news does the food trolley man relate to the prisoners in Chapter 16? How do they respond?
9. Who greets Khalid on the airplane in Chapter 26? What conversation takes place between Khalid and this character during the flight?
10. What event brings Khalid some respite from his situation in Chapter 20?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the game Bomber One which has been developed by Tariq in the novel. What are the objectives of the game? What other games does Khalid compare it to? What foreshadowing surrounds this game in the narrative? How many players are involved in the game?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the confession that Khalid is ordered to sign in Chapter 14. How many pages is the confession? What does the confession say? How does Khalid feel about signing the confession?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the history, methods, and effects of torture by waterboarding. How is the process of waterboarding described in the reading? Is this a realistic depiction? Why is waterboarding forbidden by the Geneva Convention as a use of torture against prisoners of war?
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