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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 Isma ask Karamat when he asks how she did not see what was happening to Parviaz?

2. What sound devices does Parviaz get from the electronics shop in Chapter Five?

3. Who is Abu Raees?

4. What does Karamat say when he learns of Aneeka in Chapter Eight?

5. What adjectives does Isma use in her press interview to describe Parvaiz leaving?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Parvaiz arrange to go to Raqqa?

3. Why does Parvaiz decide to go to the British embassy on his own?

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

5. What does Terry tell Karamat about Aneeka in Chapter Nine?

6. What do Isma and Aneeka say when Parvaiz calls them from Raqqa?

7. What phrase does Eamonn say in the video that hurts his father the most? What does this phrase suggest?

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

9. What do Isma and Aneeka say to one another that they think about life after death?

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

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

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 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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