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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. In the morning after the protest at the gate, what does Layla accuse Saleem of?

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

3. After Layla gets back to her trailer, what does Jake’s note tell Layla is going to happen?

4. Why does Fred say the Director is afraid of Layla?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What circumstances lead to Soheil’s death?

3. How does Layla’s first article change life at camp Mobius?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

In a personal essay, describe how this book affected you. Which parts resonated strongest with you? Which parts left you flat? How did this book change you, or give you a new opinion or experience?

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