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

2. What does Karamat say when he learns of Aneeka in Chapter Eight?

3. What image makes Karamat start thinking like a father again in Chapter Nine?

4. What does Parvaiz think Aneeka will say about Farooq?

5. What does Parvaiz say to insult Aneeka's university scholarship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the some of the ways Aneeka feels and acts in grief in Chapter Seven? What are some of the metaphors she uses? List at least three.

2. How is Aneeka able to go to Pakistan?

3. What do Isma and Aneeka say to one another that they think about life after death?

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

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

6. What does Farooq tell Parvaiz of Raqqa?

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

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

9. What does Chapter Five say starts Parvaiz's path to Istanbul?

10. Why does Parvaiz decide to go to the British embassy on his own?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Parviaz’s sisters assume he is in a romantic relationship while he is being radicalized. Eamonn’s friends joke he is being radicalized while he is in a romantic relationship. How are the assumptions and roles placed on these two young men both similar and different? What expectations are placed on them because they are men instead of women?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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