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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 Ayesha say she is from?

2. What happens to the woman who calls the minders fascists?

3. Where does Layla live?

4. How does Layla characterize the landscape around the camp?

5. What quote does Layla's father invoke from John Adams?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of scene does Layla describe when they get to the train station?

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

3. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

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

5. How does Layla describe the drive to the train station?

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

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

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

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

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

What is the role of women in Internment? How are women’s roles or actions different from men’s? Does this novel’s portrait of female characters challenge conventional notions of what it means to be female? What does Ahmed teach the reader about being female? What ideas of femininity does Ahmed resist or overturn?

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

Evaluate your own reading of Internment—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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