2.2.3 Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie) Quiz: Pearson Edexcel English Literature, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. Which ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles is reimagined in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire?

   • Electra
   • Oedipus Rex
   • Antigone
   • Medea

2. Which Pasha sibling acts as guardian to her younger twin brother and sister?

   • Karamat
   • Aneeka
   • Isma
   • Parvaiz

3. Which Pasha sibling travels to Syria and joins a terrorist organisation in Home Fire?

   • Karamat
   • Parvaiz
   • Isma
   • Eamonn

4. Which UK political office is held by Karamat Lone in Home Fire?

   • Prime Minister
   • Justice Secretary
   • Foreign Secretary
   • Home Secretary

5. Which issue concerning Parvaiz's body creates the central conflict parallel to Antigone?

   • Organ donation
   • Right to burial
   • Public cremation
   • Right to autopsy

6. Which political position is held by Eamonn Lone's father, Karamat, in Home Fire?

   • Defence Secretary
   • Home Secretary
   • Foreign Secretary
   • Prime Minister

7. Which central theme affects the Pasha family throughout Home Fire?

   • Class mobility
   • British Muslim identity
   • Financial survival
   • Environmental crisis

8. In Home Fire, Isma's romantic connection to Eamonn directly tests her loyalty to which group?

   • Her family
   • Her local council
   • Her employer
   • Her university

9. Which narrative perspective structure does Shamsie use in Home Fire?

   • Omniscient narrator
   • First-person singular
   • Unreliable narrator
   • Shifting perspectives

10. In Home Fire, state surveillance primarily turns private family grief into what?

    • Economic gain
    • Political crisis
    • Academic research
    • Historical archive

11. Which ancient Greek tragedy is contemporary Britain reimagined through in Home Fire?

    • Antigone
    • Electra
    • Medea
    • Oedipus Rex

12. What dual meaning is suggested by the word 'fire' in the title Home Fire?

    • Wealth and poverty
    • Past and future
    • Knowledge and ignorance
    • Comfort and danger

13. Isma's stand against state authority in Home Fire is primarily driven by what?

    • Political power
    • Financial ambition
    • Romantic jealousy
    • Family duty

14. Which structural feature of Home Fire directly reflects its classical Greek influence?

    • A circular frame
    • An epistolary format
    • A tragic arc
    • A non-linear timeline

15. Who are the Pasha twins whose contrasting choices drive the tragedy in Home Fire?

    • Isma and Aneeka
    • Karamat and Parvaiz
    • Aneeka and Parvaiz
    • Isma and Eamonn

16. In Home Fire, how does the British state treat citizenship for characters like Parvaiz?

    • Conditional
    • Irrelevant
    • Automatic
    • Absolute

17. How is family obligation primarily presented in Home Fire?

    • Joyful and simple
    • Tragic and binding
    • Purely financial
    • Optional and weak

18. What relationship between personal life and political power is shown in Home Fire?

    • Purely accidental
    • Inextricably linked
    • Strictly economic
    • Completely separate

19. Where does the tragic final climax of Home Fire take place?

    • Amherst
    • Karachi
    • Raqqa
    • London

20. Home Fire sets up a central contrast between state legal authority and what?

    • Commercial wealth
    • Military power
    • Family bonds
    • Religious doctrine

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