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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. At the beginning of the book, how long ago have all Muslims been fired from their jobs?

2. What does Layla say her parents taught her?

3. What is going on in Center Square as Layla goes to David’s house?

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

5. How does Layla characterize her feeling about being in camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Layla take when being relocated, what does Layla leave?

2. How do Layla's parents get notification that they are being relocated?

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

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

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

6. What kind of town does Layla live in, and how is her town bearing up under the new policies?

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

8. How does Layla describe her feelings about the natural environment where the camp is located?

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

10. How does Layla describe the layout of Camp Mobius?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate Internment as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Layla and Ayesha and Soheil endure, to perform rites of passage in this novel? How do they overcome these challenges, and what do they learn at each stage? Are they complete human beings at the end of the novel, or do they die too early to learn all the lessons a person would need to learn?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What does this book tell us about what it means to be American? What are the different views about Americanness? What does Americanness mean for the characters, and how does it inspire them?

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