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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 hashtags are trending on Twitter after Karamat's interview in Chapter Seven?

2. What phrase does Eamonn use that hurts Karamat politically?

3. What does Parvaiz look up through proxxy servers in Chapter Five?

4. What does Parvaiz say to insult Aneeka's university scholarship?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What clause does Karamat Lone add to the Immigration Bill?

5. What does Karamat Lone say in his TV interview in Chapter Seven?

6. What does Farooq talk to Parvaiz about when they first spend time with each other in Chapter Five?

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

8. What name has Farooq chosen for Parvaiz and why? What does Parvaiz think?

9. What are the some of the ways Aneeka feels and acts in grief in Chapter Seven? What are some of the metaphors she uses? List at least three.

10. What does Gladys say on TV in Chapter Seven? What happens in response on the internet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Words and phrases in different languages are used throughout the novel as terms of endearment, meaning, and relation. Find three examples to analyze how language is used by different characters. Is the language used with or without understanding of what the word or phrase originally means? How is meaning of phrases changed through use?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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