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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 David’s father’s religion?

2. What follows Layla and her parents on their way to Mess after orientation?

3. What does Layla say she is struck by at orientation?

4. Why does Layla yell at Corporal Jake Reynolds?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Layla connect with Ayesha?

2. What danger does Layla put herself in while getting home?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Jake respond after Layla cannot get through to David?

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

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

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

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 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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