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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-10, pages 88-130.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Layla say is in the American grain?
(a) Racism.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Forgetting.
(d) Injustice.

2. What follows Layla and her parents on their way to Mess after orientation?
(a) A robotic dog.
(b) A truck.
(c) A drone.
(d) A tank.

3. Why does Layla yell at Corporal Jake Reynolds?
(a) Because he hit her father.
(b) Because he tripped her.
(c) She simply vents her frustration at him.
(d) Because he hit her.

4. What quote does Layla's father invoke from John Adams?
(a) That every democracy commits suicide.
(b) That people are meant to govern themselves.
(c) That revolution is necessary every 20 years.
(d) That he wishes he had more lives to give for his family.

5. What does Layla say her father’s poetry is about?
(a) Finding love and compassion in human relationships.
(b) Making truth out of day-to-day experience.
(c) Finding beauty in small things.
(d) Finding cosmic truths in nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Layla characterize her tone when she asks the chief how his daughter’s college applications are going, while they drive to the relocation station?

2. What happens to the woman who calls the minders fascists?

3. How does Ayesha characterize her fear?

4. Where do Layla and her family live at camp Mobius?

5. What distinguishing mark does the guard have, who intervenes to get Layla out of trouble on the train?

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