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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 Arshad feign to stay home from school?

2. Which of the following is cited in the novel as supporting Prop 8?

3. For which of the following presidential campaigns does Seema volunteer?

4. To which of the following does Seema invite Bill?

5. At which grocery store is Fiaz exposed to Tahera?

Short Essay Questions

1. What initially attracts Bill to supporting Obama?

2. How does Bill threaten Seema when he calls on her at Nafeesa’s behest?

3. How does Bill’s colleague react to his involvement with protests alongside Seema?

4. Of what does Keats assert the soul is made, per the novel?

5. For what does Ishraaq decide to be grateful to Naeemullah?

6. Why does Jemaal propose to vandalize a Baptist church?

7. For what qualities is the casting choice of the antagonist in Seema’s school play made?

8. What prompts Tahera to feel shame at her reaction to the people outside the halal meat market she visits in San Francisco?

9. How does Seema employ Tahera in adapting a movie for their school’s stage?

10. What fundamental lesson do Bill’s grandparents teach him?

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

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

How reliable is the primary narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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