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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 Ayesha characterize her fear?
2. What movie do Layla and Ayesha compare their situation to?
3. What is Layla trying to avoid as she tries not to draw attention to herself as she goes to David’s house?
4. How do Layla and her parents get from the train to the camp?
5. What play does Layla read after she gets home from David’s?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Layla do when she cannot sleep?
2. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?
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 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 seek consolation in the first moments of her internment?
8. What kind of scene does Layla describe when they get to the train station?
9. What does David say when Layla phones him from the internment camp?
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
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?
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 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?
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