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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 Isma do with Aneeka the night Parviaz leaves?

2. What does Eamonn do in Chapter Four when he learns about Parviaz's leaving?

3. What Urdu phrase means "comfortable with another beyond table manners"?

4. Where was the one holiday Aneeka has gone on?

5. Why do the Pashas not learn more about Adil Pasha's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Aneeka tell Eamonn about Isma in Chapter Three? What does she tell him about Parvaiz?

3. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?

4. How is Aneeka described through Isma's memories in Chapter One?

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

6. How does Aneeka respond at first when she sees Eamonn in Chapter Three? How does she respond after he leaves?

7. What does Isma tell Eamonn in Chapter One about her past?

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

9. How does Eamonn think of Isma as he walks through London in Chapter Three?

10. What is Eamonn doing in Amherst in Chapter Two, and what does Isma think of this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aristotle, in his Poetics, writes that a piece of art as a tragedy is "incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to interpret its catharsis of such of such emotions.” Does Home Fire match this description? Use two to three examples to say why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

What are different representations of prayer in the novel? How do different characters in the novel have different ways and definitions of what it means to pray? Choose five examples to analyze what it means to pray in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Parvaiz waiting in the cafe says that "The language of violence, spoken by the powerful of all nations, erased the distinctions beneath the surface" (167-8). What is the language of violence Parvaiz is speaking of? Choose two examples in the novel of language of the powerful and how this language creates erasure of distinction.

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