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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. Where do Aneeka and Eamonn spend their time together in Chapter Four?
2. Who does Eamonn remind Isma of when she first sees him in Chapter One?
3. What does Eamonn ask Isma about her turban in Chapter One?
4. Who is Eamonn's ex-girlfriend?
5. What had Karamat given Eamonn after Alice broke up with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Isma tell Eamonn in Chapter One about her past?
2. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?
3. What shifts the balance between Aneeka and Eamonn's relationship in Chapter Three?
4. What is Eamonn's reaction to Isma telling him about her father in Chapter Two?
5. What does Isma think of when she sees parchueters in the sky and why?
6. How does Isma find out that Karamat Lone is the new Home Secretary?
7. How does Eamonn respond when Aneeka tells him about Parvaiz in Chapter Four?
8. Why does Karamat Lone say this is "his fault" that Eamonn is dating Aneeka?
9. What does Aneeka find out from Aunty Naseem in Chapter Two, and how does she react?
10. In Chapter Two, what does Eamonn say fathers are for sons?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does fear influence the actions of the characters in Home Fire? Choose three characters and describe how their actions are influenced by fear. What causes this fear? Who keeps this fear or what causes this fear in place? How does individual fear become a part of a larger state of fear?
Essay Topic 2
Secrets unsaid in Home Fire become the basis of many of the actions that took place. What is unsaid and how do the characters act because of what is unsaid? Choose two characters and compare/contrast how they act similar and/or different because of what is unsaid.
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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