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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 Suarez say the threat was a hoax in Chapter Nine?

2. What had happened when Aneeka had gone to the airport to go to Istanbul?

3. What does Aneeka say in Chapter Seven when Isma says the body is a shell?

4. What description does a retired Special Branch officer say was on the back of Parviaz's picture of his father?

5. Why did Parviaz think Isma would not get a visa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Parvaiz to contact Aneeka in Chapter Six?

2. What does Chapter Five say starts Parvaiz's path to Istanbul?

3. What does Aneeka think is going on with Parvaiz in Chapter Five?

4. Why does Parvaiz decide to go to the British embassy on his own?

5. How is Aneeka able to go to Pakistan?

6. Why does Eamonn tell his father he worries about him politically?

7. What does Aneeka do when Parvaiz's coffin arrives?

8. How is Parvaiz able to leave the compound in Chapter Six?

9. Why does Aneeka's Pakistani cousin tell her he does not want to know her plans?

10. What realization does Karamat have when the bomb threat puts him and his family in hiding?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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