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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-22, pages 206-252.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the police chief justify his role in Layla’s family’s relocation?
(a) He says that times are changing.
(b) He says that races need to stick together.
(c) He says that he is following orders.
(d) He says that the town will be pure now.

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

3. How does Layla characterize the seating sections in the Mess?
(a) Segregated.
(b) Integrated.
(c) Self-organized.
(d) Chaotic.

4. Whose voice does Layla hear in the director’s office, saying “We’re with you”?
(a) Her father.
(b) David.
(c) Suraya.
(d) Khadijah auntie.

5. Where do Layla and Ayesha find seclusion to talk?
(a) In Layla’s trailer.
(b) The garden.
(c) In Ayesha’s trailer.
(d) In the Mess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Saleem and Fauzi offer the internees rewards?

2. What does Layla say is the advantage of the distance between herself and her parents?

3. What book does Layla's father give her?

4. What effect does the fasting protest have at dinner?

5. What action does Jake tell Layla has been taken against the Secretary of War?

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