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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. What does Jake tell Layla about in order to make her afraid of proceeding?
(a) How her parents might be made to suffer.
(b) The army’s interrogation methods.
(c) Black-operations sites where people are tortured.
(d) How the Director might make reprisals.

2. What does the pain in Layla’s cheek prevent her from doing?
(a) Going to work.
(b) Imagining that this is all a dream.
(c) Seeing her parents.
(d) Going out in public.

3. What is the motto Jake told Layla his friend lived by in the para-resecue corps?
(a) A More Perfect Union.
(b) E Pluribus Unum.
(c) That Others May Live.
(d) Unity. Security. Prosperity.

4. What do Layla and Fred talk Jake out of doing?
(a) Reporting the Director to higher authorities.
(b) Breaking down the camp’s fence.
(c) Avenging the Director’s violence against Layla.
(d) Sabotaging the camp’s security systems.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where has Suraya recruited supporters from, for the next protest?

3. What does the Director want in return for what he offers Layla?

4. Whose voice does Layla hear in the director’s office, saying “We’re with you”?

5. Where do the Director’s private security guards take Layla in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the first act of open defiance that takes place in the camp?

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

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

6. What are the new rules that apply to camp Mobius after the fast protest at the Mess?

7. What circumstances lead to Soheil’s death?

8. What does the Director weaponize in his second meeting with Layla in his office?

9. In the Mess, what does the Director do that raises the stakes on his conflict with Layla?

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

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