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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. How does David address his previous conversation with Layla when he sees her again?
2. What do the internees chant as they approach the gate?
3. In the morning after the protest at the gate, what does Layla accuse Saleem of?
4. Where do Layla and Ayesha plan their activist actions?
5. How does Dr. Han help the cause of the internees?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Layla gets back from the brig, what does she find has happened to her parents?
2. What does Jake tell Layla about his life?
3. What does the Director want from Layla when he calls her to his office?
4. What effect do Layla’s bruises have on her block at morning roll-call?
5. What is the threat that looms over Layla’s head, and how does she adjust herself to avoid it?
6. Where is Layla interrogated again, after the interview in the Director’s office?
7. How does Layla answer the harassment she faces from Saleem and Fauzi and the others on her block, at morning check-in?
8. What does the Director weaponize in his second meeting with Layla in his office?
9. How does Layla’s second article get out of Mobius?
10. What are the factors that are leading the camp to a more confrontational footing?
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
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 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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