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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’s relationship with her parents change in camp Mobius?

2. What does David suggest, that Layla is appalled by?

3. How does the police chief justify his role in Layla’s family’s relocation?

4. What movie do Layla and Ayesha compare their situation to?

5. How does Layla contact David the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Layla’s relationship with her parents change in the camp?

2. What is happening around Layla Amin at the beginning of Internment?

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

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

5. How does Layla describe the drive to the train station?

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

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

8. What comes of Soheil’s confrontation with one of the Exclusion Guards?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the ending of Internment. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of Islam in Ahmed’s novel? What does it mean to different parties? What are the different types of Islam she shows us, and how do the differences affect (or not affect) the characters?

Essay Topic 3

What is Ahmed’s view, or what is Layla’s view, of the social collective as opposed to the individual? Are these two bodies opposed, or are they integrated, in Internment? How does Ahmed character the interactions between the group and the individual? How does she describe the ideal relation between them?

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