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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. Which of the following does Nafeesa note Tahera does five times daily?

2. Which of the following organizations did Divya found?

3. What color of jean is Fiaz wearing when he meets Nafeesa and Tahera?

4. Which of the following nicknames does Nafeesa have for Tahera?

5. What does Tahera insist upon doing first upon arriving at Seema’s home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nafeesa prepare special chai for her daughters?

2. In what context do Leigh and Seema first meet?

3. How does Nafeesa attempt to hide her worsening condition from her daughters?

4. What reservations does Tahera initially have about accepting guardianship of Ishraaq?

5. When Seema visits Bill at the home they had shared, she notes attempting to conceal her arrival. How does she make the attempt, and why ?

6. How does Leigh help Seema test names for her child?

7. To what kitchen tasks does Tahera put Amina?

8. What reason does Seema posit that Nafeesa cooks for her and Tahera, despite her imprecations?

9. How does Nafeesa contrast San Francisco with Chennai?

10. What paradox of mourning his mother does the narrator note?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the primary narrator. How might the novel have differed were the narrator a girl instead of a boy? Why would it be different in such ways?

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than literary fiction might Radiant Fugitives be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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