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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. Why does Jake say he is still going along with the Director’s plans?
(a) To set the Director up for a sting operation.
(b) To learn more about the Director’s intentions.
(c) To rein in the Director’s worst impulses.
(d) To keep his confidence, and protect people.

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

3. 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 still has freedom of speech.
(d) She does not need to answer without a lawyer.

4. What role does Jake say Congress is playing in the restrictions on Muslims?
(a) Allowing the president to lie, without providing accountability.
(b) Expanding the range of the restrictions with laws to suppress dissent.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ahmed say is deeply rooted in American history?

2. Where do Layla and Ayesha plan their activist actions?

3. How is the Director assaulting Layla when Fred intervenes?

4. What does Khadijah auntie compare Layla to at morning roll call?

5. What does Fauzia hand Layla at roll call?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the outcome of the protest Layla and her friends stage during the Red Cross visit?

4. What are the factors that are leading the camp to a more confrontational footing?

5. What circumstances lead to Soheil’s death?

6. What does Jake tell Layla about his life?

7. What does Jake tell Layla about his compass rose tattoo?

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

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

10. How does Jake explain why he is going along with the Director’s illegal orders?

(see the answer keys)

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