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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 Aneeka call the renters of the Pasha's old home?
2. What had Isma done in Dr. Shah's lecture in Chapter Two?
3. What is the nickname for Karamat Lone?
4. Where was the one holiday Aneeka has gone on?
5. What is the song Eamonn starts to sing in Chapter Two?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?
2. Why does Eamonn return back to his apartment for Aneeka in Chapter Four?
3. What is Eamonn doing in Amherst in Chapter Two, and what does Isma think of this?
4. How does Isma find out that Karamat Lone is the new Home Secretary?
5. What does Aneeka tell Eamonn about Isma in Chapter Three? What does she tell him about Parvaiz?
6. How does Eamonn think of Isma as he walks through London in Chapter Three?
7. What shifts the balance between Aneeka and Eamonn's relationship in Chapter Three?
8. What is the history of Mr. and Mrs. Lone meeting?
9. What does Aneeka find out from Aunty Naseem in Chapter Two, and how does she react?
10. What did Isma and Aneeka do the night Parviaz left?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
How do women choose their own ways to exist in relationship to what they are told they should be on the exterior? Choose two women characters and examine how they negotiate their faith with what the other voices say they should be. How do they choose how to act?
Essay Topic 3
On a canal in London, Eamonn looks up the history of the bridge and come across a bombing threat from the IRA, or the Irish Republic Army. What other instances of terrorism not connected to Home Fire are mentioned in the novel? Pick out two examples and analyze what the novel is doing by showing different examples of acts of terror.
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