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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. Where does David’s father work?

2. What does Layla expect to miss about having a phone?

3. What is Layla most pained to leave behind?

4. What characteristic summarizes the Director’s appearance in Layla’s eyes?

5. What is the motto of camp Mobius?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

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

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

7. What does Layla do when she cannot sleep?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate Internment as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Layla and Ayesha and Soheil endure, to perform rites of passage in this novel? How do they overcome these challenges, and what do they learn at each stage? Are they complete human beings at the end of the novel, or do they die too early to learn all the lessons a person would need to learn?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of Islam in Ahmed’s novel? What does it mean to different parties? What are the different types of Islam she shows us, and how do the differences affect (or not affect) the characters?

Essay Topic 3

What personal qualities are responsible for Layla’s leadership? What are the advantages and disadvantages of taking the leadership position? What kind of leader is Layla, and what makes her successful?

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