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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Layla characterize her feeling about being in camp?
(a) Like a moth on a pin.
(b) Like a coyote in a trap.
(c) Like a fish in a net.
(d) Like a bear in a zoo.

2. What does Layla say her father’s poetry is about?
(a) Finding beauty in small things.
(b) Finding love and compassion in human relationships.
(c) Finding cosmic truths in nature.
(d) Making truth out of day-to-day experience.

3. What does Layla's father say you can only hear in silence?
(a) Solidarity with others.
(b) Justice.
(c) The heart’s roar.
(d) Truth.

4. What do Layla's parents say will happen if they speak up against the restrictions?
(a) They will be blacklisted.
(b) They will be jailed.
(c) They will be disappeared.
(d) They will be fired.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the guard tell Soheil to do?

2. What does Layla say her parents taught her?

3. How does Ayesha change the topic when she and Layla are realizing that they do not have any rights in this camp?

4. What role does Layla play for Ayesha and Soheil?

5. What does the Director expect camp Mobius to serve as?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Layla describe the drive to the train station?

2. What comes of Soheil’s confrontation with one of the Exclusion Guards?

3. What kind of town does Layla live in, and how is her town bearing up under the new policies?

4. What is Layla’s relationship with Jake like in Chapter 11?

5. What are the different frames of reference by which Layla and Ayesha try to make the internment make sense?

6. How are Layla and her family processed at the train station?

7. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

8. How does Layla characterize the populace that is interned?

9. How does Jake respond after Layla cannot get through to David?

10. How does Jake engineer a meeting between Layla and David, and how does the visit go?

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