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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 is a “desi”?

2. What time does the curfew go into effect at camp Mobius?

3. Who discovers Layla when she sneaks out at night for a walk?

4. Who is Mrs. Brown?

5. How does the Director describe the camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Layla’s approach to the relocation differ from her parents’?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

8. What does David say when Layla phones him from the internment camp?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of Internment. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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