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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 Aneeka tell Parvaiz he should do before leaving in Chapter Five?

2. What does Parvaiz think Aneeka will say about Farooq?

3. What does Karamat remember Eamonn as after waking up in Chapter Nine?

4. What narrative does Karamat think Eamonn's video has created?

5. What does Parvaiz say to Farooq about his father on the phone in Chapter Five?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Parvaiz describe Raqqa when he first arrives in Chapter Six?

3. What does Karamat think of London and his political critics?

4. How does Parvaiz arrange to go to Raqqa?

5. 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?

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

7. What does Parvaiz find out from Farooq in Chapter Six that he did not know before?

8. Why does Karamat tell James he did not ask the Pakistani government to turn away Eamonn?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. and Mrs. Rahimi tell Eamonn that the small things are the big things. What are the small things in the novel? What are the big things? How do the small eventually become the big? Choose one big thing and write how small things in the novel add up to the big event taking place.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How do women choose their own ways to exist in relationship to what they are told they should be on the exterior? Choose two women characters and examine how they negotiate their faith with what the other voices say they should be. How do they choose how to act?

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