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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What “strange smell” immediately greets Khalid as he leaves the plane, finally free of his hood and earmuffs, in Chapter 16?
(a) Cinnamon.
(b) The sea.
(c) Burning Wood.
(d) The desert.

2. What is the title of Chapter 11 in the novel?
(a) “To Kandahar.”
(b) “Red Cross.”
(c) “Processing.”
(d) “Masud.”

3. The two men that Khalid has spent the flight sandwiched between spent the entire flight doing what, in Chapter 10?
(a) Vowing revenge.
(b) Praying
(c) Cursing.
(d) Screaming.

4. In what English city has Khalid’s dad said to have worked as a lunch chef for the past ten years, in Chapter 1?
(a) London.
(b) Westminster.
(c) Rochdale.
(d) Manchester.

5. 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) Sharon.
(c) Angela.
(d) Lee-Andy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of Khalid in the beginning of Chapter 15, “All night long, under the constant bright lights, the picture at the front of Khalid’s mind is the painting by” whom?

2. What chant breaks out in the prison, beginning with Abdul after he returns from his interrogation in Chapter 12?

3. When is Khalid’s birthday?

4. What classmate of Khalid’s, who lives over the music shop, does he recall having said of the torture during the Spanish Inquisition in Chapter 15, ““It’s a stupid way of finding anything out. Whenever my brother twists my arm up my back, it hurts so bad I say anything he wants me to just to get him to stop. So what’s the point in torturing someone if all you get is lies?”

5. Ramadan is what month of the Islamic calendar?

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