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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Layla play for Ayesha and Soheil?

2. How does Layla’s relationship with her parents change in camp Mobius?

3. Where does David’s father work?

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

5. What does David suggest, that Layla is appalled by?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Layla’s relationship with her parents change in the camp?

2. How does Layla’s approach to the relocation differ from her parents’?

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

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

5. What is David’s family’s position regarding these restrictions against Muslims?

6. How are Layla and her family processed at the train station?

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

8. How does Layla describe the drive to the train station?

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

10. How does Layla characterize the populace that is interned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Internment. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Internment.

Essay Topic 2

What is Ahmed’s view, or what is Layla’s view, of the social collective as opposed to the individual? Are these two bodies opposed, or are they integrated, in Internment? How does Ahmed character the interactions between the group and the individual? How does she describe the ideal relation between them?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in Internment. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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