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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 Parviaz ask the man in the electronic store for in Chapter Six?

2. What does Aneeka say in Chapter Seven when Isma says the body is a shell?

3. What does Isma say about Karamat's wine?

4. What does Emily ask Karamat about Eamonn?

5. How does the Pasha's grandmother die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Karamat intend to release to change the newspaper coverage after Eamonn's video? What is the story he wants to recenter the media on?

2. What does Gladys say on TV in Chapter Seven? What happens in response on the internet?

3. How is Aneeka able to go to Pakistan?

4. What does Farooq tell Parvaiz of Raqqa?

5. Why does Karamat tell James he did not ask the Pakistani government to turn away Eamonn?

6. How does Karamat Lone think of his son compared to his daughter in Chapter Eight? How has that changed with Aneeka?

7. What does Karamat Lone say in his TV interview in Chapter Seven?

8. What does Aneeka do when Parvaiz's coffin arrives?

9. How is Parvaiz able to leave the compound in Chapter Six?

10. What does Karamat think of London and his political critics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

How does fear influence the actions of the characters in Home Fire? Choose three characters and describe how their actions are influenced by fear. What causes this fear? Who keeps this fear or what causes this fear in place? How does individual fear become a part of a larger state of fear?

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