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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 lesson does Jake try to impress on Layla by telling him about his mother dying?

2. Where are Layla’s parents when she returns to her trailer?

3. What is Layla’s take-away from Jake’s warning?

4. What does Jake confiscate from Layla after the confrontation with the Director?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Layla characterize the crowd that advances to the gates?

2. What does Jake tell Layla about his life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Describe the effect of the Author’s Note on the contents of the novel. How does the Author’s Note change your reading of the novel? How does it add to it? Does it take anything away from it?

Essay Topic 3

What does this book tell us about what it means to be American? What are the different views about Americanness? What does Americanness mean for the characters, and how does it inspire them?

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