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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 do with Parviaz's casket?

2. What does the prayer the man about to be executed says remind Parvaiz of?

3. What does the newspaper say has not been ruled out for Parviaz's reasons to approach the British consulate?

4. What does Aneeka find she feels instead of grief in Chapter Seven?

5. Where does Aneeka go to sit and wait for Parviaz in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Farooq tell Parvaiz of Raqqa?

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

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

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

6. What happens when Eamonn arrives to where Aneeka is waiting in Chapter Nine?

7. How does Karamat Lone think of his son compared to his daughter in Chapter Eight? How has that changed with Aneeka?

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

What are different representations of prayer in the novel? How do different characters in the novel have different ways and definitions of what it means to pray? Choose five examples to analyze what it means to pray in the novel.

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