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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, pages 59-87.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Layla say her father’s poetry is about?
(a) Finding love and compassion in human relationships.
(b) Finding beauty in small things.
(c) Making truth out of day-to-day experience.
(d) Finding cosmic truths in nature.

2. What does camp Mobius look like when Layla and her family arrive?
(a) A prison.
(b) A summer camp.
(c) A military base.
(d) A suburban development.

3. What play does Layla read after she gets home from David’s?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
(c) A Streetcar Named Desire.
(d) Macbeth.

4. At the beginning of the book, how long ago have all Muslims been fired from their jobs?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 month.

5. What does Layla say is remarkable about the Exclusion Guards at the train station?
(a) They are all white.
(b) They are all heavily armed.
(c) They are all silent.
(d) They are all female.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Layla and her family live at camp Mobius?

2. How does Layla characterize her experience of entering the camp?

3. What does the guard tell Soheil to do?

4. What hope does David offer Layla in the face of restrictions against Muslims?

5. What does Layla say is in the American grain?

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