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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does Jake tell Layla has been taken against the Secretary of War?
(a) He was shot at.
(b) He was doxxed.
(c) He was assaulted.
(d) He was kidnapped.

2. Where do Layla and her parents disembark the train?
(a) In the middle of the desert.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Mojave Plains.
(d) Independence.

3. How does Layla characterize her experience of entering the camp?
(a) Hallucinatory.
(b) Feverish.
(c) Crystalline.
(d) Surreal.

4. How does the Director end the violence surrounding Noor’s arrest?
(a) He shoots at the protestors.
(b) He fires a shot in the air.
(c) He sounds the camp siren.
(d) He orders the guards to shoot on his order.

5. What does Layla say is in the American grain?
(a) Racism.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Forgetting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the guard tell Soheil to do?

2. What does Layla say she is struck by at orientation?

3. What do Layla's parents forbid?

4. What characteristic summarizes the Director’s appearance in Layla’s eyes?

5. What is a “desi”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Layla and her family processed at the train station?

2. What does Layla take when being relocated, what does Layla leave?

3. What is David’s family’s position regarding these restrictions against Muslims?

4. What kind of town does Layla live in, and how is her town bearing up under the new policies?

5. How do Layla's parents get notification that they are being relocated?

6. How does Jake engineer a meeting between Layla and David, and how does the visit go?

7. How does Jake respond after Layla cannot get through to David?

8. How do Layla and her family arrive at Camp Mobius?

9. How well does Layla’s world correspond with America under Donald Trump?

10. How does Layla seek consolation in the first moments of her internment?

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