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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 happened to Aneeka on the Tube in Chapter Four?
2. What does Isma say to her mother and grandmother when she used to go out?
3. What does Isma walk out on while in the woods with Eamonn?
4. What does Dr. Shah say about secrets?
5. What Urdu phrase means "comfortable with another beyond table manners"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Three, what does Aneeka tell Eamonn she think about his father?
2. What does Isma tell Eamonn in Chapter One about her past?
3. In Chapter Two, what does Eamonn say fathers are for sons?
4. How does Eamonn think of Isma as he walks through London in Chapter Three?
5. Why does Isma decide to tell Eamonn of her family's history in Chapter Two?
6. How does Eamonn respond when Aneeka tells him about Parvaiz in Chapter Four?
7. How is Aneeka described through Isma's memories in Chapter One?
8. What does Isma think of in Chapter One when she first sees Eamonn?
9. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?
10. What does Aneeka find out from Aunty Naseem in Chapter Two, and how does she react?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do women choose their own ways to exist in relationship to what they are told they should be on the exterior? Choose two women characters and examine how they negotiate their faith with what the other voices say they should be. How do they choose how to act?
Essay Topic 2
Mr. and Mrs. Rahimi tell Eamonn that the small things are the big things. What are the small things in the novel? What are the big things? How do the small eventually become the big? Choose one big thing and write how small things in the novel add up to the big event taking place.
Essay Topic 3
The Quran, in Surah 6:164, says, “...And every soul earns not [blame] except against itself, and no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another...” Which characters in Home Fire are bearing another’s burden? How do they handle this burden and why is it placed upon them?
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