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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 David suggest, that Layla is appalled by?

2. What do Layla and Ayesha compare the camp fence to?

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

4. What distinguishing mark does the guard have, who intervenes to get Layla out of trouble on the train?

5. How does Layla characterize the landscape around the camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Layla describe Noor’s arrest?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the difference between writing a novel and performing activism. How are they similar, how are they different? Is Ahmed’s book a form of activism? What are the advantages and disadvantages of writing a novel as a form of activism?

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 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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