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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. Who does Terry say Eamonn is like?
2. Why did Parviaz think Isma would not get a visa?
3. What does Farooq tell Parvaiz he is to him at the end of Chapter Five?
4. What do Farooq's cousins do while Parvaiz is chained?
5. What does Aneeka say in the transcript in Chapter Eight?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Parvaiz able to leave the compound in Chapter Six?
2. What do Isma and Aneeka say when Parvaiz calls them from Raqqa?
3. What does Karamat Lone say in his TV interview in Chapter Seven?
4. What does Gladys say on TV in Chapter Seven? What happens in response on the internet?
5. Why does Aneeka's Pakistani cousin tell her he does not want to know her plans?
6. What does Chapter Five say starts Parvaiz's path to Istanbul?
7. What does Aneeka think is going on with Parvaiz in Chapter Five?
8. How is Aneeka able to go to Pakistan?
9. How does Karamat Lone think of his son compared to his daughter in Chapter Eight? How has that changed with Aneeka?
10. What prompts Parvaiz to contact Aneeka in Chapter Six?
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
Parvaiz waiting in the cafe says that "The language of violence, spoken by the powerful of all nations, erased the distinctions beneath the surface" (167-8). What is the language of violence Parvaiz is speaking of? Choose two examples in the novel of language of the powerful and how this language creates erasure of distinction.
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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