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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 Karamat say he does in times of stress?

2. Why do the Pashas not learn more about Adil Pasha's death?

3. What does Karamat call Eamonn when he learns about Aneeka being Parviaz's twin?

4. What does Karamat Lone say to the Pasha's family friend when asked about Adil Pasha?

5. What does Aneeka tell Eamonn about Parviaz in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eamonn respond when Aneeka tells him about Parvaiz in Chapter Four?

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

3. How does Isma find out that Karamat Lone is the new Home Secretary?

4. What happens after Eamonn sees Aneeka take a Skype call in Chapter Three?

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

6. What is the "old muck" about Karamat Lone and how does he respond?

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

8. What does Isma tell Eamonn in Chapter One about her past?

9. What is Eamonn doing in Amherst in Chapter Two, and what does Isma think of this?

10. How does Eamonn think of Isma as he walks through London in Chapter Three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are women treated in relation to men in the novel? How does being woman and Muslim differ from being male and Muslim in the novel? How is this treatment similar and different in the different locations of Raqqa and Britain? Compare/contrast men and women's roles as they are said to be and how they actually are.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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