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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. What flowers does Fiaz bring to the celebratory meal?

2. To which of the following does Ishraaq compare sleep?

3. In which of the following cities is Seema at age 21?

4. Which of the following roles does Seema recall Reshmi played?

5. Which of the following does Arshad feign to stay home from school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bill note Mame would have shown her disapproval of his actions?

3. For what does Ishraaq ask sleep?

4. Why does Seema initially hesitate to tell Bill she is a lesbian?

5. What excuse do Leigh and Seema give for their late return before the celebratory meal?

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

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

8. What gesture do Bill and Seema use to signal concession in arguments with each other?

9. Describe Seema’s first lover.

10. Why does Seema tell herself she loves Leigh?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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