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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 series of books did Seema and Tahera read as children?

2. From which of the following does Imam Zia hail?

3. Which of the following appears on protest signs outside the fundraising venue where Obama is scheduled to appear?

4. Which of Keats’s poems does Tahera favor?

5. Which of the following meanings associates with Seema’s name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reasons does Seema have for lying long abed the morning after Tahera arrives in San Francisco?

3. For what reason does Tahera refuse to eat the chicken served on the day she arrives in San Francisco?

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

5. Why does Seema note she and Tahera used to walk to school hand in hand?

6. How does Leigh first become aware of Seema?

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

8. What are Leigh and Seema doing when Seema learns of her mother’s diagnosis?

9. Why does Ishraaq’s face not appear on the ultrasound taken during Seema’s prenatal appointment?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Radiant Fugitives? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Radiant Fugitives. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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