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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 Layla refuse to tell her parents what she is planning?

2. What does the Director offer Layla as an enticement?

3. What is the motto Jake told Layla his friend lived by in the para-resecue corps?

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

5. Who does Layla think must be the traitor who has talked with the Director about the students’ plans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Layla’s second article get out of Mobius?

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

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 threat that looms over Layla’s head, and how does she adjust herself to avoid it?

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

8. What does Layla tell the crowd when she gets the bullhorn, and what does she say about America?

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

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

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

Evaluate your own reading of Internment—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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