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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 action does Jake tell Layla has been taken against the Secretary of War?
2. Where do Layla and her family live at camp Mobius?
3. Where does David’s father work?
4. How long do Layla and her parents have to pack their things for relocation?
5. What is it that overcomes Layla’s fight or flight response?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Layla seek consolation in the first moments of her internment?
2. How does Layla describe the drive to the train station?
3. How do Layla's parents get notification that they are being relocated?
4. What comes of Soheil’s confrontation with one of the Exclusion Guards?
5. What is happening around Layla Amin at the beginning of Internment?
6. Who is the White Rose, and what does she mean to Layla?
7. What is David’s family’s position regarding these restrictions against Muslims?
8. What does Layla do when she cannot sleep?
9. What does David say when Layla phones him from the internment camp?
10. How are Layla and her family processed at the train station?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of Islam in Ahmed’s novel? What does it mean to different parties? What are the different types of Islam she shows us, and how do the differences affect (or not affect) the characters?
Essay Topic 2
Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about her, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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