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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 Layla go after the confrontation with the Director?

2. What does the Director do when Layla refuses to beg for her life?

3. What does the Director accuse Layla of in his office?

4. What order do the internees in Layla’s block ignore when Layla comes out in the morning?

5. What warning/challenge was issued to the Director?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jake tell Layla about his life?

3. What is Layla’s attitude toward her condition, and what steps does she take to oppose it?

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

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

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

7. How does David’s second visit come about, and what does it accomplish?

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

9. How does Fred save Layla from the Director during this second interview?

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

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 topics would you like to research further, after reading Internment. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Internment.

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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