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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 say when Eamonn wakes up to see her staring at him in Chapter Three?
2. What role does Karamat Lone get promoted to?
3. What is Isma going to Amherst for?
4. What had Isma done in Dr. Shah's lecture in Chapter Two?
5. What is the shared paper Isma and Dr. Shah are working on?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Isma think of in Chapter One when she first sees Eamonn?
2. What does Karamat Lone say in his speech to a largely Muslim school?
3. Why does Aneeka tell Eamonn she got into the tube with him? Why does she say she fell in love with him?
4. What is the "old muck" about Karamat Lone and how does he respond?
5. What does Aneeka find out from Aunty Naseem in Chapter Two, and how does she react?
6. What is Eamonn's reaction to Isma telling him about her father in Chapter Two?
7. In Chapter Two, what does Eamonn say fathers are for sons?
8. How has Karamat Lone felt about Eamonn's previous girlfriends and their parents?
9. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?
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
Isma tells Aneeka that they must obey the law and Aneeka says that is not justice. Is the law the same as justice? Use two to three examples to analyze if Home Fire leans towards one or the other as the answer.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Look at the romantic relationships shown in Home Fire. How do the characters come to know they are in love with one another? How does this love evolve? What does it cause these characters to do? Choose two relationships and compare their development.
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