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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Director’s reason for hating Islam?
(a) Islam’s restrictions on women.
(b) He hate Islam because he is told to.
(c) “Sharia law.”
(d) Islam’s food restrictions.

2. How far into the future does Ahmed say Internment is set?
(a) Two years.
(b) Six months.
(c) A year.
(d) 15 minutes.

3. Why does Jake tell the Director that Layla cannot disavow the article she had written?
(a) She still has freedom of speech.
(b) As an internee, she could not have passed the article out of the camp.
(c) As an internee, she could not have access to see the article.
(d) She does not need to answer without a lawyer.

4. What order do the internees in Layla’s block ignore when Layla comes out in the morning?
(a) Shut up.
(b) Stay away from Layla.
(c) Get in line.
(d) Get on the ground.

5. What warning does the Director give Layla after catching her in the Mess?
(a) He hears everything.
(b) He will not be restrained.
(c) He sees everything.
(d) He has absolute power of life and death.

6. What book does Layla's father give her?
(a) Thoreau’s Walden.
(b) Beauvoir’s Useless Mouths.
(c) Austen’s Persuasion.
(d) Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

7. What do Layla and Fred talk Jake out of doing?
(a) Avenging the Director’s violence against Layla.
(b) Reporting the Director to higher authorities.
(c) Sabotaging the camp’s security systems.
(d) Breaking down the camp’s fence.

8. Where are Layla’s parents when she returns to her trailer?
(a) They have been imprisoned.
(b) They are at work.
(c) They are in the neighboring trailer.
(d) They are at the Mess.

9. Who does Layla think must be the traitor who has talked with the Director about the students’ plans?
(a) Suraya.
(b) Abdul.
(c) Ayesha.
(d) Noor.

10. Whose voice does Layla hear in the director’s office, saying “We’re with you”?
(a) Suraya.
(b) David.
(c) Her father.
(d) Khadijah auntie.

11. What changes on the first morning after the fasting protest?
(a) Punishments for minor offenses.
(b) Neighborhood groupings in the trailers.
(c) A strict gag order is implemented.
(d) Work assignments.

12. What does Ahmed say is deeply rooted in American history?
(a) Relocation camps.
(b) Solidarity with Muslims.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Totalitarianism.

13. What counter-accusation does Layla make, when the others accuse her of causing trouble?
(a) That the others deserve to suffer.
(b) That the others have not done anything.
(c) That the others are begging her to step forward.
(d) That the others are afraid of Saleem and Fauzi.

14. Where do guards take Layla after the protest at the gate?
(a) Her trailer.
(b) A holding cell.
(c) The Director’s office.
(d) The Hub.

15. What effect does the fasting protest have at dinner?
(a) It exposes the Director’s failure to keep order.
(b) It galvanizes the internees against the guards.
(c) It embarrasses the president.
(d) It reveals the terrible conditions in the camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David show Layla the next time he sees her at the Hub?

2. Where do the Director’s private security guards take Layla in the middle of the night?

3. Who has arrived at the camp the morning after Layla’s confrontation with the Director?

4. What does Layla describe in her first article about life in camp Mobius?

5. What is it that saves Layla when the Director bursts in on her meeting with David?

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