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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 the Director characterize the role of the minders in each block of trailers?

2. What role does Layla play for Ayesha and Soheil?

3. How long has it been since the president called Muslims a threat to the country?

4. How does Layla characterize her feeling about being in camp?

5. Who was interned at Manzanar during World War II?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Layla describe the layout of Camp Mobius?

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

5. How did the Registry of Muslims come to be, in Ahmed’s novel?

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

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

8. What danger does Layla put herself in while getting home?

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

10. How does Layla describe Noor’s arrest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Internment. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Internment.

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