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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. What is the title of Chapter 17?
2. What is the title of Chapter 18?
3. What is the name of the fellow recently released detainee that is taken along with Khalid to a waiting van after they leave the airplane in Chapter 27?
4. The military doctor that comes to examine Khalid in Chapter 23 is said to be no more than how old?
5. How old was Niamh when she joined Khalid’s school, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Khalid encounter Tariq in Chapter 22? What does he learn from this character?
2. Whom does Khalid encounter at the communal showers in Chapter 17? What is his first impression when he sees this character?
3. Where is the airplane when Khalid awakens in Chapter 27? Where does Khalid learn he will be going?
4. How is Khalid’s psychological state described in Chapter 19?
5. How is Khalid’s arrival in Guantanamo Bay Prison described in the beginning of Chapter 16?
6. Who greets Khalid on the airplane in Chapter 26? What conversation takes place between Khalid and this character during the flight?
7. What does the fellow prisoner tell Khalid about his experiences after Karachi in Chapter 17?
8. What causes Khalid to feel guilty in Chapter 25? What does Khalid receive in the mail in this chapter?
9. What news does the food trolley man relate to the prisoners in Chapter 16? How do they respond?
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
Analyze the character of Abdul Al-Farran. How old does Abdul tell Khalid he is? What does he say was his greatest error in his arrest? What happens to Abdul in the story? How does Khalid respond?
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
Discuss the character of Khalid Ahmed as the protagonist of the novel. Where does Khalid live when the story begins? How old is he? How does the author’s use of language inform you about the character? How does Khalid's character evolve in the course of the story?
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