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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does David address his previous conversation with Layla when he sees her again?
(a) He apologizes profusely.
(b) He refuses to address what angered her.
(c) He makes it up with flowers.
(d) He promises to change.

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

3. What role does Jake say Congress is playing in the restrictions on Muslims?
(a) Expanding the range of the restrictions with laws to suppress dissent.
(b) Allowing the president to lie, without providing accountability.
(c) Delaying any hearings into the Constitutionality of the president’s measures.
(d) Leading the country in passing the laws and overriding the president’s veto.

4. What time does the Director say daily roll calls will take place, after the fasting protest?
(a) 6:30 a.m.
(b) 7 a.m.
(c) 6 a.m.
(d) 7:30 a.m.

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

6. What does Layla express her faith in at the end of the novel?
(a) Her parents’ forgiveness.
(b) The Director’s superiors chastising him.
(c) The redemptive power of love.
(d) Her ability to find her way.

7. What adds urgency to the students’ plans for a protest fast?
(a) Jake is threatened by the Director.
(b) Jake has to scale back his help, because he is suspected of treason.
(c) Protestors are disappeared.
(d) They are afraid things will keep getting worse.

8. What injury does Layla suffer when the Director catches her and David?
(a) Her shoulder is dislocated.
(b) Her cheek is bruised.
(c) Her leg is bruised.
(d) Her arm is broken.

9. What does Layla say is the advantage of the distance between herself and her parents?
(a) It keeps her innocent.
(b) It protects her.
(c) It gives them authority.
(d) It protects them.

10. What excuse does Jake give for Layla being in the Mess when the Director catches them there?
(a) She was hungry.
(b) She lost her necklace.
(c) She got lost.
(d) She was making a phone call.

11. What does Fauzia hand Layla at roll call?
(a) Pots and pans to bang for noise.
(b) A bullhorn.
(c) A burner phone.
(d) Soheil’s Quran.

12. What does David show Layla the next time he sees her at the Hub?
(a) Weapons he can deliver.
(b) A letter of support.
(c) Her article online.
(d) Articles about the camp.

13. What warning does the Director give Layla after catching her in the Mess?
(a) He sees everything.
(b) He has absolute power of life and death.
(c) He hears everything.
(d) He will not be restrained.

14. What does Jake confiscate from Layla after the confrontation with the Director?
(a) Her access to garden tools.
(b) Her notebooks.
(c) The burner phone.
(d) Her access to David.

15. How does Dr. Han help the cause of the internees?
(a) She leaks her report to the press.
(b) She conveys messages from David.
(c) She testifies to Congress.
(d) She authorizes Jake to protect Layla and her family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the motto Jake told Layla his friend lived by in the para-resecue corps?

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

4. Who was it who said the quote about what fascism will be wearing when it comes to America?

5. What is it that saves Layla when the Director bursts in on her meeting with David?

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