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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 will fascism be wearing when it comes to America, according to the quote Ahmed cites?

2. What does Jake tell Layla his mother loved?

3. What does the pain in Layla’s cheek prevent her from doing?

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

5. What does the Director want in return for what he offers Layla?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the outcome of the protest Layla and her friends stage during the Red Cross visit?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. When the Director visits Layla in her cell, what does he tell her about his view of the world and the need for the camp?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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