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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Layla characterize nature’s power?

2. What does the guard tell Soheil to do?

3. What does Layla say is remarkable about the Exclusion Guards at the train station?

4. When Jake gives her a burner phone, where does Layla call David from?

5. What does Layla's father say you can only hear in silence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Layla seek consolation in the first moments of her internment?

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

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

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

9. What does Layla do when she cannot sleep?

10. How does Layla characterize the Director’s introduction to the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does this book tell us about what it means to be American? What are the different views about Americanness? What does Americanness mean for the characters, and how does it inspire them?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about her, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the effect of the Author’s Note on the contents of the novel. How does the Author’s Note change your reading of the novel? How does it add to it? Does it take anything away from it?

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