Christopher Hitchens, Believe Me, It’s Torture
Read Believe Me, It’s Torture and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. What “sort of barbarism” does Hitchens explore in his essay?
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2. In order to understand this form of torture, what research method does Hitchens employ?
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3. What “bad childhood moment” enhances Hitchens’s fear of this form of torture?
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4. For how long did Khalid Sheikh Mohammed hold out while being subjected to this form of torture?
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5. This form of torture was initially “something that Americans were being trained to resist, not
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