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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. Where does Khalid learn Mikael has moved with his family in Chapter 28?
2. What is Chapter 26’s title?
3. What does the “pretty woman in her early twenties with a reddish ponytail, nice smile and perfect teeth” give to Khalid before leaving in Chapter 22?
4. When one of the prisoners shouts at Khalid, calling him a “dorkhead,” he becomes convinced that it is whom in Chapter 22?
5. What is the title of Chapter 25?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Khalid learn from Tariq of his experiences after arrest in Chapter 23?
2. How is Khalid’s psychological state described in Chapter 19?
3. What causes Khalid to not answer the calls from the next prison cell in Chapter 23?
4. What information does the author relate of the imprisonment of children in the novel’s Afterword?
5. Who interrupts Khalid from the act of self-abuse in Chapter 22? How is this character described?
6. What does the fellow prisoner tell Khalid about his experiences after Karachi in Chapter 17?
7. Whom does Khalid encounter on his way to the barber in Chapter 21? What exchange is described?
8. How is Khalid’s arrival in his room described in Chapter 27? Whom does Khalid speak to here?
9. What news does the food trolley man relate to the prisoners in Chapter 16? How do they respond?
10. How is Khalid’s speech at the assembly described in Chapter 29? How do the students respond?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the character of Masud Al-Dossadi in the narrative. What are Khalid’s impressions of Masud? In what ways does Khalid admire this character? How does Khalid compare his situation to that of Masud?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the events surrounding 9/11 and the establishment of the Guantanamo Bay Prison. When did this take place? Who approved the opening of Guantanamo Bay? How do these events relate directly to the narrative of Guantanamo Boy?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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