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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. Why does Jake tell the Director that Layla cannot disavow the article she had written?

2. What counter-accusation does Layla make, when the others accuse her of causing trouble?

3. What sign of solidarity does Khadijah auntie give Layla at morning roll call?

4. How does Layla characterize the changes she sees in her parents?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the factors that are leading the camp to a more confrontational footing?

2. When Layla gets back from the brig, what does she find has happened to her parents?

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

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

5. What does the Director weaponize in his second meeting with Layla in his office?

6. How does Jake explain why he is going along with the Director’s illegal orders?

7. What does Samira Ahmed say makes her angry in the Author’s Note, and what does she say gives her hope?

8. 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?

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

10. How does Layla’s resistance take root after the fast protest?

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

Who is the audience for Internment? What is the ideal reader for Internment likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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