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

2. What happens to the woman who calls the minders fascists?

3. Where does Layla meet David for the first time?

4. Why does Jake tell Layla to stop calling him corporal Reynolds?

5. What statement of Sophie Scholl’s does Layla appropriate as her own?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is David’s family’s position regarding these restrictions against Muslims?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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