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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 Six, what does Parvaiz learn about his father that changes his impression of him?
2. What is the Twitter handle used to mock Gladys?
3. What does Eamonn do when Aneeka hugs him at the end of the book?
4. What is Aneeka's appeal to the prime minister?
5. What happens when Eamonn transfers flights in Chapter Nine?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Farooq tell Parvaiz of Raqqa?
2. How is Aneeka able to go to Pakistan?
3. Why does Parvaiz decide to go to the British embassy on his own?
4. How does Isma appeal to Karamat Lone to let her go to Aneeka in Chapter Eight?
5. Why does Karamat tell James he did not ask the Pakistani government to turn away Eamonn?
6. What does Karamat intend to release to change the newspaper coverage after Eamonn's video? What is the story he wants to recenter the media on?
7. What clause does Karamat Lone add to the Immigration Bill?
8. What does Chapter Five say starts Parvaiz's path to Istanbul?
9. How does Parvaiz describe Raqqa when he first arrives in Chapter Six?
10. Why does Eamonn tell his father he worries about him politically?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What are the stories that characters in Home Fire learn to understand who they are? Choose two characters and analyze how the stories they have been told shape their actions.
Essay Topic 3
Cornielle, a famous seventeenth century French playwright, says that the very nature of tragedy is based upon the idea of free will. Do the characters in Home Fire have free will? How do they exercise their right to choose? How do ancestry, history, and a sense of duty tie into the decisions they make? Choose one of the characters and analyze if/how they have free will, what their will is influenced by, and how historical contexts play into their decisions or lack of.
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