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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 do on his first field assignment?

2. How does the newspaper article describe Parviaz's killer?

3. What is the Twitter handle used to mock Gladys?

4. What hashtags are trending on Twitter after Karamat's interview in Chapter Seven?

5. What does Isma ask Karamat when he asks how she did not see what was happening to Parviaz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Parvaiz find out from Farooq in Chapter Six that he did not know before?

2. How does Isma appeal to Karamat Lone to let her go to Aneeka in Chapter Eight?

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

4. How does Parvaiz arrange to go to Raqqa?

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

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

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

8. What realization does Karamat have when the bomb threat puts him and his family in hiding?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are women treated in relation to men in the novel? How does being woman and Muslim differ from being male and Muslim in the novel? How is this treatment similar and different in the different locations of Raqqa and Britain? Compare/contrast men and women's roles as they are said to be and how they actually are.

Essay Topic 2

Words and phrases in different languages are used throughout the novel as terms of endearment, meaning, and relation. Find three examples to analyze how language is used by different characters. Is the language used with or without understanding of what the word or phrase originally means? How is meaning of phrases changed through use?

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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