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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the fellow prisoner tell Khalid he is from in Chapter 8?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Pakistan.

2. How old was Niamh when she joined Khalid’s school, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.

3. What is the name of the man with the library cart that offers Khalid used books to read in Chapter 20?
(a) Bruce.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Will.
(d) Shafi.

4. What book is in Khalid’s cell when he arrives at Guantanamo Bay Prison in Chapter 16?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Qur’an.
(c) The Old Man and the Sea.
(d) The Torah.

5. What is the title of Chapter 10?
(a) “Processing.”
(b) “To Kandahar.”
(c) “Masud.”
(d) “Karachi.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Khalid learns that the prisoner in the next cell to his is named what, in Chapter 11?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 22, the narrator notes that Khalid has been keeping track of days how for the last three days?

4. What do the guards bring Khalid to eat after his days of sleep deprivation and confinement after the confession in Chapter 15?

5. What term from the narrative refers to the breaking of the fast of Ramadan?

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