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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 causes Tahera to rise from having Seema braid her hair?

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

3. As what does Tahera suggest Seema wants Leigh?

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

5. Which of the following scores a soccer goal on Ismail?

Short Essay Questions

1. What initially attracts Bill to supporting Obama?

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

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

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

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

6. What causes joy in San Francisco after Seema and Bill return from the first presidential campaign they work together?

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

8. Why does Seema tell herself she loves Leigh?

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

10. How does Tahera defy Naeemullah in her marriage?

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

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 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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