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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 the Director describe Layla when she is taken from his interrogation room?
(a) The end of the internees’ hope.
(b) A parasite.
(c) The angel of death.
(d) A plague.

2. Where do guards take Layla after the protest at the gate?
(a) The Hub.
(b) The Director’s office.
(c) Her trailer.
(d) A holding cell.

3. What does Layla's mother say progress comes with?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) Loss.
(c) Danger.
(d) Risk.

4. Where has Suraya recruited supporters from, for the next protest?
(a) The garden.
(b) Her block.
(c) Quranic study class.
(d) The Mess.

5. What American motto does Layla use to describe the crowd who march to the gate to demand the camp be closed?
(a) From many, one.
(b) Land of the free, home of the brave.
(c) One nation under God, indivisible, with justice for all.
(d) Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes on the first morning after the fasting protest?

2. What does Jake tell Layla about in order to make her afraid of proceeding?

3. What lesson does Jake try to impress on Layla by telling him about his mother dying?

4. What role does Jake say Congress is playing in the restrictions on Muslims?

5. After Layla gets back to her trailer, what does Jake’s note tell Layla is going to happen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Layla answer the harassment she faces from Saleem and Fauzi and the others on her block, at morning check-in?

2. What circumstances lead to Soheil’s death?

3. How does Fred save Layla from the Director during this second interview?

4. How does Layla’s second article get out of Mobius?

5. What is the image Khadijah auntie recites to Layla, and what effect does it have?

6. Where is Layla interrogated again, after the interview in the Director’s office?

7. What effect do Layla’s bruises have on her block at morning roll-call?

8. What does Layla tell the crowd when she gets the bullhorn, and what does she say about America?

9. How does David’s second visit come about, and what does it accomplish?

10. How does Layla’s resistance take root after the fast protest?

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