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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. How does the Pasha's grandmother die?

2. What accent does the woman calling out for help in Chapter Six have?

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

4. Why does Suarez say the threat was a hoax in Chapter Nine?

5. What does Eamonn do when Aneeka hugs him at the end of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Aneeka able to go to Pakistan?

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

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

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. How does Isma appeal to Karamat Lone to let her go to Aneeka in Chapter Eight?

7. Why does Parvaiz return to be chained at Farooq's apartment?

8. How does Parvaiz arrange to go to Raqqa?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

How does the influence of the father shape the way a son grows up? Compare/contrast Parviaz and Eamonn with their relationships to their father. How do they originally begin viewing their fathers? How does this view influence how they act and who they are as people? And how does this view change over the course of the novel?

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