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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Director end the violence surrounding Noor’s arrest?
(a) He orders the guards to shoot on his order.
(b) He fires a shot in the air.
(c) He shoots at the protestors.
(d) He sounds the camp siren.

2. How does the Director characterize the role of the minders in each block of trailers?
(a) Crackers.
(b) Community resources.
(c) Guards.
(d) Spies.

3. Where is David’s mother from?
(a) Eritrea.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Yemen.
(d) Syria.

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

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

6. How does Ayesha change the topic when she and Layla are realizing that they do not have any rights in this camp?
(a) She asks about Star Wars.
(b) She asks about Layla’s favorite book.
(c) She asks about Layla’s grandparents.
(d) She asks about Layla’s favorite musician.

7. What role does Layla play for Ayesha and Soheil?
(a) Matchmaker.
(b) Minder.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Chaperone.

8. How does Layla characterize her experience of entering the camp?
(a) Feverish.
(b) Surreal.
(c) Hallucinatory.
(d) Crystalline.

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

10. 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) Affability.
(b) Despair.
(c) Concern.
(d) Belligerence.

11. What is David’s relationship with Layla?
(a) Classmate.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Boyfriend.
(d) Brother.

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

13. What does Layla throw a rock at, when she cannot contact David?
(a) Her trailer.
(b) The Hub.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The Director.

14. What is David’s father’s religion?
(a) Christian.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Hindu.

15. What statement of Sophie Scholl’s does Layla appropriate as her own?
(a) The truth will out.
(b) Democracy dies in darkness.
(c) Justice does not fight for itself.
(d) Someone has to make a start.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Layla characterize the landscape around the camp?

2. How does Layla justify refusing to go along with the plan David suggests?

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

4. When Jake gives her a burner phone, where does Layla call David from?

5. Who does Layla think she sees on their way driving away from their house?

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