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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5, pages 34-58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Layla's parents say will happen if they speak up against the restrictions?
(a) They will be fired.
(b) They will be disappeared.
(c) They will be jailed.
(d) They will be blacklisted.

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

3. What is Layla most pained to leave behind?
(a) Her Nanni’s quilt.
(b) Her stuffed animals.
(c) Her letters from David.
(d) Her books.

4. Where does Layla live?
(a) Big city.
(b) College town.
(c) Rural town.
(d) Suburbs.

5. How does Layla characterize her tone when she asks the chief how his daughter’s college applications are going, while they drive to the relocation station?
(a) Despair.
(b) Concern.
(c) Belligerence.
(d) Affability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Layla worry about as she and her parents leave the house?

2. What kind of train takes Layla and her family to the relocation center?

3. Why does Layla say Americans accepted talk of a Muslim ban during the presidential campaign?

4. How does the police chief justify his role in Layla’s family’s relocation?

5. What is David’s father’s religion?

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