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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 about Isma to Eamonn in Chapter Three?
2. Who does Eamonn call in Chapter Four with his father's phone?
3. What had Karamat given Eamonn after Alice broke up with him?
4. Why does Isma say in the cafe in Chapter Two that she lied about knowing Karamat was Eamonn's father?
5. What is Terry Lone's profession?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Eamonn think of Isma as he walks through London in Chapter Three?
2. Why does Karamat Lone say this is "his fault" that Eamonn is dating Aneeka?
3. In Chapter Three, what does Aneeka tell Eamonn she think about his father?
4. What did Isma and Aneeka do the night Parviaz left?
5. What does Eamonn see Aneeka doing in the morning in Chapter Three? What does she respond when he asks?
6. What is Eamonn's reaction to Isma telling him about her father in Chapter Two?
7. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?
8. Why does Aneeka tell Eamonn she got into the tube with him? Why does she say she fell in love with him?
9. What is the history of Mr. and Mrs. Lone meeting?
10. Why does Eamonn return back to his apartment for Aneeka in Chapter Four?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mr. and Mrs. Rahimi tell Eamonn that the small things are the big things. What are the small things in the novel? What are the big things? How do the small eventually become the big? Choose one big thing and write how small things in the novel add up to the big event taking place.
Essay Topic 2
Aristotle, in his Poetics, writes that a piece of art as a tragedy is "incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to interpret its catharsis of such of such emotions.” Does Home Fire match this description? Use two to three examples to say why or why not.
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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