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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Director’s private security guards take Layla in the middle of the night?
(a) The Director’s office.
(b) Her trailer.
(c) A room that smells like bleach.
(d) Outside the camp.

2. What is the motto Jake told Layla his friend lived by in the para-resecue corps?
(a) E Pluribus Unum.
(b) That Others May Live.
(c) Unity. Security. Prosperity.
(d) A More Perfect Union.

3. What instruction does Ahmed end the Author’s Note with?
(a) Pay attention.
(b) Resist.
(c) Show solidarity.
(d) Love.

4. What does the Director do when Layla refuses to beg for her life?
(a) Shoots her.
(b) Slaps her.
(c) Stabs her.
(d) Punches her.

5. Why does Jake tell the Director that Layla cannot disavow the article she had written?
(a) As an internee, she could not have passed the article out of the camp.
(b) As an internee, she could not have access to see the article.
(c) She does not need to answer without a lawyer.
(d) She still has freedom of speech.

6. Why do Saleem and Fauzi offer the internees rewards?
(a) To show the Director a model block.
(b) To motivate them to turn in the article-writer.
(c) To keep the peace when the Red Cross visits.
(d) To spur them to keep the peace and be industrious.

7. How does Layla explain her injury to her parents?
(a) She says that garden supplies collapsed on her.
(b) She says that some kids were rough-housing and fell on her.
(c) She says that she tripped and fell.
(d) She says that she fell off a rock.

8. What role does Soheil play in the fast Layla and Ayesha are planning?
(a) He acts as looking while they plan.
(b) He squeals to the Director.
(c) He helps develop a strategy.
(d) He recruits other internees.

9. What does Layla anticipate will happen after the fasting protest?
(a) The Director will be furious.
(b) There will be arrests and disappearances.
(c) There will be strict curfews and restrictions.
(d) The community will rise up against the guards.

10. What does Layla say the Director uses as a weapon, when she goes to see him in his office?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Silence.
(c) Threats.
(d) Torture.

11. What does Jake tell Layla about in order to make her afraid of proceeding?
(a) The army’s interrogation methods.
(b) Black-operations sites where people are tortured.
(c) How her parents might be made to suffer.
(d) How the Director might make reprisals.

12. What will fascism be wearing when it comes to America, according to the quote Ahmed cites?
(a) A blindfold.
(b) White hoods.
(c) A business suit.
(d) The American flag.

13. What warning/challenge was issued to the Director?
(a) Noor’s hijab was left on the admin building door.
(b) A manifesto promised disturbances if reforms were not made.
(c) Video of Noor’s arrest was leaked to the press.
(d) Guards were threatened if they did not close the camp.

14. What does Khadijah auntie compare Layla to at morning roll call?
(a) Lightning.
(b) A heartbeat.
(c) Thunder.
(d) The sea.

15. What counter-accusation does Layla make, when the others accuse her of causing trouble?
(a) That the others are begging her to step forward.
(b) That the others deserve to suffer.
(c) That the others have not done anything.
(d) That the others are afraid of Saleem and Fauzi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does the Director say daily roll calls will take place, after the fasting protest?

2. Whose voice does Layla hear in the director’s office, saying “We’re with you”?

3. How many guards does Ayesha say came for Layla’s parents?

4. Who tells the woman to pipe down when she accuses Layla of causing the restrictions at morning roll call the day after the fasting protest?

5. What does the Director offer Layla as an enticement?

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