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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. In which of the following does Seema have a residence?

2. Which of the following fruits does Seema note having bought to facilitate her mother?

3. In which of the following professions is Tahera trained?

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

5. In the novel, the word “bhaiya” means which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. As what does Tahera gloss “Bismallah wa’ala barakatillah” (17)?

4. To what action of his does Bill ascribe the peril Seema and Ishraaq face at the latter’s birth?

5. What message does Seema interpret from Tahera’s conduct on her arrival at the airport?

6. How does Tahera prepare her family for her trip to San Francisco?

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

8. To what does Naeemullah ascribe his desire to wed Nafeesa?

9. Why is Tahera startled to encounter Seema and Nafeesa at the airport when she arrives in San Francisco?

10. Tahera rebukes herself for a thought she has on the evening she arrives in San Francisco; what is that thought?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent can the novel be taken as satire? What might Radiant Fugitives be satirizing? What in the novel suggests as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Assuming that Radiant Fugitives should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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