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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 her father’s poetry is about?

2. How does Layla contact David the first time?

3. Why did Layla leave school?

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

5. Why does the woman behind Layla say that they can be mistreated?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Layla and her family processed at the train station?

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

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

4. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

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

6. How well does Layla’s world correspond with America under Donald Trump?

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

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

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

10. How does Layla characterize the populace that is interned?

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

What does this book tell us about what it means to be American? What are the different views about Americanness? What does Americanness mean for the characters, and how does it inspire them?

Essay Topic 3

When is Internment most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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