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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 is it that overcomes Layla’s fight or flight response?
(a) Her exhaustion.
(b) Police dogs.
(c) Armed guards.
(d) Her weary parents.

2. What is a “desi”?
(a) An Indian-American.
(b) A dark-skinned American.
(c) A Muslim American.
(d) A North African American.

3. Who was interned at Manzanar during World War II?
(a) Refugees.
(b) Prisoners of war.
(c) War criminals.
(d) Japanese Americans.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Layla most pained to leave behind?

2. Where do Layla and Ayesha find seclusion to talk?

3. What does Layla say her father’s poetry is about?

4. How does Layla characterize Union Station’s architecture?

5. What do Layla's parents forbid?

(see the answer key)

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