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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Layla characterize the seating sections in the Mess?
(a) Integrated.
(b) Self-organized.
(c) Segregated.
(d) Chaotic.

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

4. How does Ayesha characterize her fear?
(a) As a disease.
(b) As a superpower.
(c) As a religious experience.
(d) As a test.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took the action against the Secretary of War?

2. What does Layla say is in the American grain?

3. How does Layla contact David the first time?

4. How does Layla characterize nature’s power?

5. When Jake gives her a burner phone, where does Layla call David from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of scene does Layla describe when they get to the train station?

2. What do Layla and Ayesha find in the garden?

3. How well does Layla’s world correspond with America under Donald Trump?

4. How does Jake engineer a meeting between Layla and David, and how does the visit go?

5. How does Jake respond after Layla cannot get through to David?

6. How does Layla seek consolation in the first moments of her internment?

7. What are the different frames of reference by which Layla and Ayesha try to make the internment make sense?

8. How did the Registry of Muslims come to be, in Ahmed’s novel?

9. What does David say when Layla phones him from the internment camp?

10. How do Layla and her family arrive at Camp Mobius?

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