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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 injuries has Soheil suffered from the fasting protest?

2. What does Jake tell Layla about in order to make her afraid of proceeding?

3. Where do Layla and Ayesha plan their activist actions?

4. How does David address his previous conversation with Layla when he sees her again?

5. What time does the Director say daily roll calls will take place, after the fasting protest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first act of open defiance that takes place in the camp?

2. What does Jake tell Layla about his life?

3. What is the image Khadijah auntie recites to Layla, and what effect does it have?

4. How does Layla characterize the crowd that advances to the gates?

5. What does Layla have planned after she gets the article out of the camp to be published?

6. In the Mess, what does the Director do that raises the stakes on his conflict with Layla?

7. What are the new rules that apply to camp Mobius after the fast protest at the Mess?

8. What circumstances lead to Soheil’s death?

9. What kind of gathering starts to collect outside the gates of the camp?

10. How does Layla’s second article get out of Mobius?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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