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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 Aneeka end her conversation with Isma in Chapter Two?
2. Who threatened to bomb the North Circular Canal in 1939?
3. What does Dr. Shah say the Quran says about sex?
4. What does Karamat call Eamonn when he learns about Aneeka being Parviaz's twin?
5. What does Eamonn say in Chapter Two about his father's choices?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Aneeka tell Eamonn about Isma in Chapter Three? What does she tell him about Parvaiz?
2. How does touch make Isma closer to Aneeka than Parvaiz?
3. What does Isma do physically when she sees Parvaiz's name on Skype in Chapter One? What does she think of?
4. What shifts the balance between Aneeka and Eamonn's relationship in Chapter Three?
5. What does Eamonn see Aneeka doing in the morning in Chapter Three? What does she respond when he asks?
6. What does Isma tell Eamonn in Chapter One about her past?
7. How does Aneeka respond at first when she sees Eamonn in Chapter Three? How does she respond after he leaves?
8. How does Eamonn respond when Aneeka tells him about Parvaiz in Chapter Four?
9. How does Isma find out that Karamat Lone is the new Home Secretary?
10. How is Aneeka described through Isma's memories in Chapter One?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do women choose their own ways to exist in relationship to what they are told they should be on the exterior? Choose two women characters and examine how they negotiate their faith with what the other voices say they should be. How do they choose how to act?
Essay Topic 2
How does fear influence the actions of the characters in Home Fire? Choose three characters and describe how their actions are influenced by fear. What causes this fear? Who keeps this fear or what causes this fear in place? How does individual fear become a part of a larger state of fear?
Essay Topic 3
Look at the romantic relationships shown in Home Fire. How do the characters come to know they are in love with one another? How does this love evolve? What does it cause these characters to do? Choose two relationships and compare their development.
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