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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characteristic summarizes the Director’s appearance in Layla’s eyes?
(a) His blotchy face.
(b) His dripping nose.
(c) His scaly hands.
(d) His beady eyes.

2. What do Layla's parents say will happen if they speak up against the restrictions?
(a) They will be blacklisted.
(b) They will be fired.
(c) They will be jailed.
(d) They will be disappeared.

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

4. How does Layla characterize the news the internees get in the camp?
(a) Lies from guards.
(b) Rumors from staff.
(c) Propaganda from the guards.
(d) Prophecies from the internees.

5. How does Layla contact David the first time?
(a) She sends him a letter.
(b) She calls him from the Hub.
(c) She calls from a burner phone.
(d) She video chats with him.

6. How does Layla characterize Union Station’s architecture?
(a) Neo-classical.
(b) Brutalist.
(c) Art deco-Mission style mashup.
(d) Postmodern absurdism.

7. How does Layla justify refusing to go along with the plan David suggests?
(a) She would not be able to stomach taking such action.
(b) It is not possible to remain innocent while serving evil.
(c) The heart does not forget its lies.
(d) Once a heart is sullied, it cannot be cleaned.

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

9. What does Layla say is remarkable about the Exclusion Guards at the train station?
(a) They are all silent.
(b) They are all female.
(c) They are all heavily armed.
(d) They are all white.

10. What action does Jake tell Layla has been taken against the Secretary of War?
(a) He was doxxed.
(b) He was assaulted.
(c) He was kidnapped.
(d) He was shot at.

11. What is Layla trying to avoid as she tries not to draw attention to herself as she goes to David’s house?
(a) Being fined.
(b) Being robbed.
(c) Being beaten.
(d) Being turned in.

12. What does the guard tell Soheil to do?
(a) Submit a complaint.
(b) Shut his mouth.
(c) Follow orders.
(d) Try to escape.

13. What role does Layla play for Ayesha and Soheil?
(a) Chaperone.
(b) Matchmaker.
(c) Minder.
(d) Teacher.

14. What does Layla throw a rock at, when she cannot contact David?
(a) The Director.
(b) The mountains.
(c) Her trailer.
(d) The Hub.

15. What statement of Sophie Scholl’s does Layla appropriate as her own?
(a) Justice does not fight for itself.
(b) Someone has to make a start.
(c) The truth will out.
(d) Democracy dies in darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Exclusion Guards confiscate, while Layla and her parents are packing?

2. What hope does David offer Layla in the face of restrictions against Muslims?

3. What is the motto of camp Mobius?

4. What is a “desi”?

5. Where does Layla live?

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