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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 injury does Layla suffer when the Director catches her and David?

2. How far into the future does Ahmed say Internment is set?

3. What does Layla describe in her first article about life in camp Mobius?

4. Who fires the deadly shot before the camp gates are opened?

5. Why does Fred tell Layla that he is not concerned about what he does being caught on camera?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the threat that looms over Layla’s head, and how does she adjust herself to avoid it?

2. What does Jake tell Layla about his life?

3. How does Layla answer the harassment she faces from Saleem and Fauzi and the others on her block, at morning check-in?

4. When the Director visits Layla in her cell, what does he tell her about his view of the world and the need for the camp?

5. What does the Director want from Layla when he calls her to his office?

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

7. Where is Layla interrogated again, after the interview in the Director’s office?

8. What changes when Dr. Han comes to examine Layla’s injuries in her cell?

9. What effect do Layla’s bruises have on her block at morning roll-call?

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

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

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 3

Identify the most important plot points in Internment. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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