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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. Why does Eamonn's mother pay for him to live?
2. Where was the one holiday Aneeka has gone on?
3. Who are the neighbors who invite Eamonn to watch the game in Chapter Four?
4. In Chapter One, how does Aneeka understand Parviaz's deception?
5. What does GMW stand for?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Aneeka respond at first when she sees Eamonn in Chapter Three? How does she respond after he leaves?
2. What does Karamat Lone say in his speech to a largely Muslim school?
3. Why does Isma decide to tell Eamonn of her family's history in Chapter Two?
4. How does Isma find out that Karamat Lone is the new Home Secretary?
5. What did Isma and Aneeka do the night Parviaz left?
6. Why does Eamonn return back to his apartment for Aneeka in Chapter Four?
7. What is Eamonn's reaction to Isma telling him about her father in Chapter Two?
8. How does Eamonn think of Isma as he walks through London in Chapter Three?
9. What does Eamonn see Aneeka doing in the morning in Chapter Three? What does she respond when he asks?
10. Why does Aneeka tell Eamonn she got into the tube with him? Why does she say she fell in love with him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
The Quran, in Surah 6:164, says, “...And every soul earns not [blame] except against itself, and no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another...” Which characters in Home Fire are bearing another’s burden? How do they handle this burden and why is it placed upon them?
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