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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. Ramadan is what month of the Islamic calendar?

2. Masud points out another prisoner to Khalid at the showers and tells him in Chapter 17 that the prisoner was blinded in one eye where?

3. The military doctor that comes to examine Khalid in Chapter 23 is said to be no more than how old?

4. Where has Khalid begun biting himself in Chapter 17?

5. When one of the prisoners shouts at Khalid, calling him a “dorkhead,” he becomes convinced that it is whom in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Khalid encounter on his way to the barber in Chapter 21? What exchange is described?

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

3. What news does the food trolley man relate to the prisoners in Chapter 16? How do they respond?

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

5. Who arrives outside of Khalid’s cell in the beginning of Chapter 26? What orders is Khalid given?

6. Where does Khalid encounter Angela and Bruce in Chapter 18? What do these characters ask Khalid?

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

8. What does the fellow prisoner tell Khalid about his experiences after Karachi in Chapter 17?

9. What music is blaring in the prison when Khalid awakens in Chapter 18? What does this make Khalid think of?

10. What causes Khalid to not answer the calls from the next prison cell in Chapter 23?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the setting of the Sarposa prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan. How large is this prison? When was it established? What history of torture has been related through the news of the prison facilities? How long is Khalid detained here?

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 and traditions of Ramadan and the symbolism of the jinn within Arabic literature and religion. What do the jinn look like? Why do you think these mythological creatures appear to Khalid in Chapter 19? Do they bring Khalid peace or anxiety? Why?

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