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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. Where does Layla live?

2. How does Layla characterize the landscape around the camp?

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

4. What does Layla say her father’s poetry is about?

5. Where does Layla find David?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jake respond after Layla cannot get through to David?

2. How does Layla describe Noor’s arrest?

3. How are Layla and her family processed at the train station?

4. How does Jake engineer a meeting between Layla and David, and how does the visit go?

5. How does Layla’s approach to the relocation differ from her parents’?

6. What is Layla’s relationship with Jake like in Chapter 11?

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

8. How do Layla's parents get notification that they are being relocated?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Internment. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Internment. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Research the various internments the book references: the Japanese internment during World War II, the Nazi concentration camps, and the caging of kids at the American border that happened under President Trump. Which case most closely resembles the internment in Ahmed’s novel? Which parts of the novel reflect different cases? What parts are new to this novel?

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