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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 does Dr. Shah say about secrets?

2. How does Aneeka find out it was Isma who turned in Parviaz?

3. How does Aneeka end her conversation with Isma in Chapter Two?

4. What does Aneeka tell Eamonn about Parviaz in Chapter Three?

5. Why does Eamonn tell Aneeka he came to visit Wembley Park in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Aneeka tell Eamonn she got into the tube with him? Why does she say she fell in love with him?

2. What did Isma and Aneeka do the night Parviaz left?

3. How has Karamat Lone felt about Eamonn's previous girlfriends and their parents?

4. What shifts the balance between Aneeka and Eamonn's relationship in Chapter Three?

5. What is Eamonn's reaction to Isma telling him about her father in Chapter Two?

6. What is the history of Mr. and Mrs. Lone meeting?

7. How does Isma find out that Karamat Lone is the new Home Secretary?

8. In Chapter Two, what does Eamonn say fathers are for sons?

9. What does Isma think of in Chapter One when she first sees Eamonn?

10. In Chapter Three, what does Aneeka tell Eamonn she think about his father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Media representation of the events happening in the novel, as TV shows, news reporting, newspaper articles, and tabloids, influence life for the characters and also create a perception of the events for the outside world. How is this perception created similar or different than the actual events? Choose one event and two media representations to examine how the news tells the event to the outside world and if it does so accurately. Who tells the story and why are they telling it?

Essay Topic 2

Karamat Lone makes a speech telling mostly Muslim population of schoolchildren that they must fit in, rather than stand out, to be British. How is this idea of British-ness similar or different than other characters's ideas in the novel? Choose two characters and analyze how they are “British” and what this definition means to them.

Essay Topic 3

How does the influence of the father shape the way a son grows up? Compare/contrast Parviaz and Eamonn with their relationships to their father. How do they originally begin viewing their fathers? How does this view influence how they act and who they are as people? And how does this view change over the course of the novel?

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