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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 name of the man who introduces himself as Khalid’s new lawyer in Chapter 24?
2. When Khalid exits the plane in Chapter 16, a sticky heat covers his body in sweat, reminding him of an old school trip where on the hottest day of the year?
3. What does Khalid read at the assembly in Chapter 29?
4. The room that Khalid is taken to after arriving in England is described as bigger than what, in Chapter 27?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who greets Khalid in the interrogation room in Chapter 26? What information do these characters relate?
2. Who greets Khalid on the airplane in Chapter 26? What conversation takes place between Khalid and this character during the flight?
3. Who arrives outside of Khalid’s cell in the beginning of Chapter 26? What orders is Khalid given?
4. How is Khalid’s arrival home described in Chapter 28? How does Khalid respond to the experience of arriving home?
5. Whom does Khalid encounter on his way to the barber in Chapter 21? What exchange is described?
6. What causes Khalid to not answer the calls from the next prison cell in Chapter 23?
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. Where does Khalid encounter Angela and Bruce in Chapter 18? What do these characters ask Khalid?
10. Who interrupts Khalid from the act of self-abuse in Chapter 22? How is this character described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the history, methods, and effects of torture by waterboarding. How is the process of waterboarding described in the reading? Is this a realistic depiction? Why is waterboarding forbidden by the Geneva Convention as a use of torture against prisoners of war?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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