Q 01/05

After Katrina flooded New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun rescued neighbors while paddling which secondhand boat?

A) Kayak

B) Canoe

C) Pirogue

D) Dinghy

Answer · why

B) Canoe

Canoe trips through the drowned streets let him ferry neighbors to higher ground and hand out fresh water. The aluminum craft, sixteen feet long, went...

Q 02/05

Soldiers at the makeshift jail holding Abdulrahman Zeitoun said he belonged to the Taliban and which other network?

A) Al-Qaeda

B) Hezbollah

C) Hamas

D) Abu Sayyaf

Answer · why

A) Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda was the label a passing soldier threw at the four caged men when they asked why they were being held. Some of the troops there had recently s...

Q 03/05

The makeshift jail where Abdulrahman Zeitoun was caged stood in the New Orleans station of which bus company?

A) Trailways

B) Jefferson Lines

C) Greyhound

D) Peter Pan

Answer · why

C) Greyhound

Greyhound gave the jail its nickname, Camp Greyhound: sixteen chain-link cages topped with razor wire under the station canopies. About 1,200 people p...

Q 04/05

Which American writer, known for the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, wrote the book Zeitoun?

A) Jeffrey Eugenides

B) Michael Chabon

C) Jon Krakauer

D) Dave Eggers

Answer · why

D) Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers spent about three years interviewing the family, and let them read six or seven drafts of the manuscript before it went to press.

Q 05/05

Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the New Orleans businessman at the heart of Zeitoun, grew up in which Middle Eastern country?

A) Syria

B) Lebanon

C) Jordan

D) Egypt

Answer · why

A) Syria

Syria is where he was raised, in a large family on the Mediterranean coast. He came to the United States in search of work and never expected to stay.