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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 does Layla express her faith in at the end of the novel?
2. How old was Jake when his mother died?
3. In the morning after the protest at the gate, what does Layla accuse Saleem of?
4. What warning does the Director give Layla after catching her in the Mess?
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 compass rose tattoo?
3. What are the factors that are leading the camp to a more confrontational footing?
4. What is the first act of open defiance that takes place in the camp?
5. How does Layla characterize the crowd that advances to the gates?
6. How does Layla answer the harassment she faces from Saleem and Fauzi and the others on her block, at morning check-in?
7. What does Layla have planned after she gets the article out of the camp to be published?
8. What does the Director want from Layla when he calls her to his office?
9. What does Samira Ahmed say makes her angry in the Author’s Note, and what does she say gives her hope?
10. What is Layla’s attitude toward her condition, and what steps does she take to oppose it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 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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