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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 tone when she asks the chief how his daughter’s college applications are going, while they drive to the relocation station?
(a) Belligerence.
(b) Concern.
(c) Affability.
(d) Despair.

2. What do Layla's parents forbid?
(a) Seeing David.
(b) Speaking up to police.
(c) Violating curfew.
(d) Going outside of the house.

3. Who discovers Layla when she sneaks out at night for a walk?
(a) Her father.
(b) Ayesha.
(c) Another internee.
(d) The guard with the compass tattoo.

4. What kind of train takes Layla and her family to the relocation center?
(a) Commuter train.
(b) Cattle cars.
(c) Freight train.
(d) High-speed train.

5. How long has it been since the president called Muslims a threat to the country?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Layla say she is struck by at orientation?

2. How do Layla and her parents get from the train to the camp?

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

4. How does the police chief justify his role in Layla’s family’s relocation?

5. What do Layla and Ayesha compare the camp fence to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Registry of Muslims come to be, in Ahmed’s novel?

2. What does Layla take when being relocated, what does Layla leave?

3. How does Layla describe her feelings about the natural environment where the camp is located?

4. What is David’s family’s position regarding these restrictions against Muslims?

5. What kind of scene does Layla describe when they get to the train station?

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

7. What does Layla do when she cannot sleep?

8. How do Layla and her family arrive at Camp Mobius?

9. What do Layla and Ayesha find in the garden?

10. How does Layla’s relationship with her parents change in the camp?

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