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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 Ayesha change the topic when she and Layla are realizing that they do not have any rights in this camp?

2. How long do Layla and her parents have to pack their things for relocation?

3. Why does Layla yell at Corporal Jake Reynolds?

4. Where is David’s mother from?

5. What is Layla most pained to leave behind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the White Rose, and what does she mean to Layla?

4. What does David say when Layla phones him from the internment camp?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Layla characterize the populace that is interned?

10. How well does Layla’s world correspond with America under Donald Trump?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of Internment—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate Internment as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Layla and Ayesha and Soheil endure, to perform rites of passage in this novel? How do they overcome these challenges, and what do they learn at each stage? Are they complete human beings at the end of the novel, or do they die too early to learn all the lessons a person would need to learn?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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