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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 changes on the first morning after the fasting protest?

2. Who tells the woman to pipe down when she accuses Layla of causing the restrictions at morning roll call the day after the fasting protest?

3. Why does Jake keep Layla from telling him her plans?

4. Why does Fred tell Layla that he is not concerned about what he does being caught on camera?

5. What adds urgency to the students’ plans for a protest fast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jake explain why he is going along with the Director’s illegal orders?

3. How does Layla’s first article change life at camp Mobius?

4. What are the new rules that apply to camp Mobius after the fast protest at the Mess?

5. When Layla gets back from the brig, what does she find has happened to her parents?

6. What does Samira Ahmed say makes her angry in the Author’s Note, and what does she say gives her hope?

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

8. What does the Director want from Layla when he calls her to his office?

9. What are the factors that are leading the camp to a more confrontational footing?

10. What does Layla have planned after she gets the article out of the camp to be published?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of women in Internment? How are women’s roles or actions different from men’s? Does this novel’s portrait of female characters challenge conventional notions of what it means to be female? What does Ahmed teach the reader about being female? What ideas of femininity does Ahmed resist or overturn?

Essay Topic 2

When is Internment most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different 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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