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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. What does Layla express her faith in at the end of the novel?
(a) Her ability to find her way.
(b) The Director’s superiors chastising him.
(c) Her parents’ forgiveness.
(d) The redemptive power of love.

2. Who has arrived at the camp the morning after Layla’s confrontation with the Director?
(a) Protestors and the media.
(b) International observers.
(c) David.
(d) Layla’s Nanni.

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

4. What does the Director offer Layla as an enticement?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Travel privileges.
(d) Hot water.

5. What does Khadijah auntie compare Layla to at morning roll call?
(a) The sea.
(b) Thunder.
(c) A heartbeat.
(d) Lightning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake tell Layla about in order to make her afraid of proceeding?

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

3. Why does Layla say the Director needs control?

4. What does Layla say the Director uses as a weapon, when she goes to see him in his office?

5. Where does Layla go after the confrontation with the Director?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Layla’s attitude toward her condition, and what steps does she take to oppose it?

2. 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?

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

4. What does the Director weaponize in his second meeting with Layla in his office?

5. How does Layla answer the harassment she faces from Saleem and Fauzi and the others on her block, at morning check-in?

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

7. How does David’s second visit come about, and what does it accomplish?

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

9. Where is Layla interrogated again, after the interview in the Director’s office?

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

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