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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 throw a rock at, when she cannot contact David?

2. What does the guard tell Soheil to do?

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

4. How long do Layla and her parents have to pack their things for relocation?

5. Whose prayer does Layla pray,while she is packing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Layla take when being relocated, what does Layla leave?

2. How do Layla and her family arrive at Camp Mobius?

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

4. How does Layla describe Noor’s arrest?

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

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

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

8. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

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

10. How does Jake respond after Layla cannot get through to David?

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

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.

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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