Home Fire

Chapters 1-2   

Reading Check

1. Boston (Chapter 1)

2. New Year’s Day (Chapter 1)

3. Isma (Chapter 2)

Short Answer

1. Her mother died. (Chapter 1)

2. Isma is questioned by security. (Chapter 1)

3. He has fled to join ISIS in Syria, and she worries about being connected to him. (Chapter 1)

4. Karamat rejected his Muslim background. (Chapter 1)

Chapters 3-4

Reading Check

1. Parvaiz (Chapter 3)

2. She thinks she will be detained by law enforcement. (Chapter 4)

3. He tells Eamonn not to talk to Aneeka again. (Chapter 4)

Short Answer

1. He saw that his family showed no interest in the holiday. (Chapter 3)

2. Eamonn recognizes Aneeka from a picture at Isma’s apartment. (Chapter 3)

3. He recommends that they don’t set themselves apartment and that they should integrate into the United Kingdom. (Chapter 4)

Chapters 5-6

Reading Check

1. They can’t afford the house without Isma. (Chapter 5)

2. His passport (Chapter 6)

3. Istanbul (Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. Their father’s history might have prevented it. (Chapter 5)

2. He wants to learn more about his father, and Farooq also treats him kindly around boys who bully him. (Chapter 5)

3. Farooq tries to turn him against his sisters, and Parvaiz grows more distant from them. (Chapter 5)

Chapter 7

Reading Check

1. Farooq (Chapter 7)

2. The media assumes a rival jihadi group killed him. (Chapter 7)

3. Because she is a woman (Chapter 7)

Short Answer

1. She was held up by security and had to return home. (Chapter 7)

2. It means that his body won’t be returned to the UK; instead, it will go to Pakistan. (Chapter 7)

3. He is contemptuous because he believes that Aneeka, Parvaiz, and Isma have jeopardized his family's ability to travel because of their affiliations with terrorist groups. (Chapter 7)

Chapters 8-9

Reading Check

1. Karamat's (Chapter 8)

2. The High Commissioner of Pakistan (Chapter 8)

3. The United Kingdom and Pakistan (Chapter 8)

Short Answer

1. She is mad that he told the press about Eamonn’s relationship with Aneeka. (Chapter 8)

2. He doesn’t want to treat his son differently than he treats any other British citizen. (Chapter 9)

3. She wants to convince him to let her go to Karachi. (Chapter 8)