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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. In Chapter Three, what does Aneeka say must happen for her and Eamonn to continue seeing one another?

2. Who is Alice now dating?

3. What does Eamonn do when Aneeka brings up in Chapter Four how they only survived because they were a secret?

4. What is the shared paper Isma and Dr. Shah are working on?

5. What does Eamonn start showing to Aneeka in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aneeka tell Eamonn about Isma in Chapter Three? What does she tell him about Parvaiz?

2. What does Isma do physically when she sees Parvaiz's name on Skype in Chapter One? What does she think of?

3. What does Isma think of when she sees parchueters in the sky and why?

4. How does Aneeka respond at first when she sees Eamonn in Chapter Three? How does she respond after he leaves?

5. In Chapter Two, what does Eamonn say fathers are for sons?

6. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?

7. What is the history of Mr. and Mrs. Lone meeting?

8. What does Aneeka find out from Aunty Naseem in Chapter Two, and how does she react?

9. What does Karamat Lone say in his speech to a largely Muslim school?

10. Why does Isma decide to tell Eamonn of her family's history in Chapter Two?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Media representation of the events happening in the novel, as TV shows, news reporting, newspaper articles, and tabloids, influence life for the characters and also create a perception of the events for the outside world. How is this perception created similar or different than the actual events? Choose one event and two media representations to examine how the news tells the event to the outside world and if it does so accurately. Who tells the story and why are they telling it?

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