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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. How does David address his previous conversation with Layla when he sees her again?

2. What injuries has Soheil suffered from the fasting protest?

3. What injury does Layla suffer when the Director catches her and David?

4. What does Jake tell Layla about in order to make her afraid of proceeding?

5. Who was it who said the quote about what fascism will be wearing when it comes to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Layla’s attitude toward her condition, and what steps does she take to oppose it?

2. How does David’s second visit come about, and what does it accomplish?

3. What does the Director want from Layla when he calls her to his office?

4. What does Jake tell Layla about his life?

5. What does Jake tell Layla about his compass rose tattoo?

6. When Layla gets back from the brig, what does she find has happened to her parents?

7. How does Layla answer the harassment she faces from Saleem and Fauzi and the others on her block, at morning check-in?

8. What effect do Layla’s bruises have on her block at morning roll-call?

9. What are the factors that are leading the camp to a more confrontational footing?

10. What kind of gathering starts to collect outside the gates of the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the difference between writing a novel and performing activism. How are they similar, how are they different? Is Ahmed’s book a form of activism? What are the advantages and disadvantages of writing a novel as a form of activism?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate Internment as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Layla and Ayesha and Soheil endure, to perform rites of passage in this novel? How do they overcome these challenges, and what do they learn at each stage? Are they complete human beings at the end of the novel, or do they die too early to learn all the lessons a person would need to learn?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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