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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that saves Layla when the Director bursts in on her meeting with David?
(a) Her parents show up.
(b) Fred protects her.
(c) Red Cross observers intervene.
(d) David livestreams the scene.

2. What do Layla and Fred talk Jake out of doing?
(a) Avenging the Director’s violence against Layla.
(b) Sabotaging the camp’s security systems.
(c) Breaking down the camp’s fence.
(d) Reporting the Director to higher authorities.

3. How does Layla characterize the changes she sees in her parents?
(a) They are depressed and exhausted all the time.
(b) They have lost themselves.
(c) Their lights have gone out.
(d) They seem older all the time.

4. What adds urgency to the students’ plans for a protest fast?
(a) They are afraid things will keep getting worse.
(b) Jake has to scale back his help, because he is suspected of treason.
(c) Jake is threatened by the Director.
(d) Protestors are disappeared.

5. Why does Jake keep Layla from telling him her plans?
(a) So he cannot confess it under torture.
(b) To maintain his innocence.
(c) So she can maintain an element of surprise.
(d) To avoid criticizing it.

6. Whose voice does Layla hear in the director’s office, saying “We’re with you”?
(a) Khadijah auntie.
(b) Suraya.
(c) David.
(d) Her father.

7. Where do the Director’s private security guards take Layla in the middle of the night?
(a) A room that smells like bleach.
(b) Outside the camp.
(c) Her trailer.
(d) The Director’s office.

8. How many times have Layla’s articles been read online?
(a) Tens of thousands of times.
(b) Millions of times.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of times.
(d) Thousands of times.

9. Why does Fred tell Layla that he is not concerned about what he does being caught on camera?
(a) He always hides his face from the cameras.
(b) He knows the officers who will review the footage.
(c) The cameras do not actually work.
(d) The IT guy in charge of the cameras is on his side.

10. What does David show Layla the next time he sees her at the Hub?
(a) Weapons he can deliver.
(b) Articles about the camp.
(c) A letter of support.
(d) Her article online.

11. What effect does the fasting protest have at dinner?
(a) It galvanizes the internees against the guards.
(b) It embarrasses the president.
(c) It reveals the terrible conditions in the camp.
(d) It exposes the Director’s failure to keep order.

12. What is Layla’s take-away from Jake’s warning?
(a) She says that she does not care what happens to her.
(b) She says that they are liable to be killed if they do not fight.
(c) She says that it is better go down fighting.
(d) She says that people should know about these things.

13. What does Layla express her faith in at the end of the novel?
(a) Her ability to find her way.
(b) The Director’s superiors chastising him.
(c) The redemptive power of love.
(d) Her parents’ forgiveness.

14. Where do Layla and Ayesha plan their activist actions?
(a) Ayesha’s trailer.
(b) The Mess.
(c) The garden.
(d) Layla’s trailer.

15. What role does Soheil play in the fast Layla and Ayesha are planning?
(a) He recruits other internees.
(b) He helps develop a strategy.
(c) He squeals to the Director.
(d) He acts as looking while they plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jake tell the Director that Layla cannot disavow the article she had written?

2. What time does the Director say daily roll calls will take place, after the fasting protest?

3. What excuse does Jake give for Layla being in the Mess when the Director catches them there?

4. What time does the curfew go into effect after the fasting protest?

5. How does the Director describe Layla when she is taken from his interrogation room?

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