Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the guard tell Soheil to do?
2. What does Layla expect to miss about having a phone?
3. What kind of train takes Layla and her family to the relocation center?
4. Who was interned at Manzanar during World War II?
5. How does Layla characterize her tone when she asks the chief how his daughter’s college applications are going, while they drive to the relocation station?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Layla characterize the populace that is interned?
2. What does Layla take when being relocated, what does Layla leave?
3. What are the different frames of reference by which Layla and Ayesha try to make the internment make sense?
4. How did the Registry of Muslims come to be, in Ahmed’s novel?
5. What is David’s family’s position regarding these restrictions against Muslims?
6. How do Layla's parents get notification that they are being relocated?
7. What kind of scene does Layla describe when they get to the train station?
8. What do Layla and Ayesha find in the garden?
9. How do Layla and her family arrive at Camp Mobius?
10. How does Layla seek consolation in the first moments of her internment?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
In a personal essay, describe how this book affected you. Which parts resonated strongest with you? Which parts left you flat? How did this book change you, or give you a new opinion or experience?
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of women in Internment? How are women’s roles or actions different from men’s? Does this novel’s portrait of female characters challenge conventional notions of what it means to be female? What does Ahmed teach the reader about being female? What ideas of femininity does Ahmed resist or overturn?
|
This section contains 882 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
