Questions and Answers

1. BIFOCAL
CHAPTER NINE
DECEMBER 2019
M. RIDDELL

2. 1. HOW DO HAROON’S PARENTS FEEL ABOUT
HIM ATTENDING THE COURT HOUSE TO
SUPPORT AZEEM?
• THEY DON’T WANT HIM TO GO TO THE COURTHOUSE.
• THEY DON’T THINK HIS BEING THERE WILL MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.
• THEY CAME TO CANADA TO ESCAPE CHAOS AND THEY DON’T WANT THEIR
CHILDREN INVOLVED IN ANY KIND OF UPSET.

3. 2. HOW DOES ZANA FEEL ABOUT HAROON?
• SHE THINKS HE IS A COWARD.
• SHE THINKS BECAUSE HE DOESN’T STAND UP AND SAY OUT LOUD THAT HE
DOESN’T AGREE WITH THINGS, IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR THOSE THINGS TO
CONTINUE.

4. 3. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE COURTROOM?
• HAROON SPEAKS TO AZEEM’S PARENTS.
• AZEEM IS BROUGHT IN WEARING AN ORANGE JUMPSUIT AND HANDCUFFS.
• AZEEM SEES JULIAN AND HAROON AND SMILES AND WAVES.
• AZEEM IS REMANDED AND HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE COURTROOM.

5. REMAND (VERB) - REMAND IS THE PROCESS OF
DETAINING A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN ARRESTED
AND CHARGED WITH AN OFFENSE UNTIL THEIR
TRIAL. A PERSON WHO IS ON REMAND IS HELD IN A
PRISON OR DETENTION CENTRE, OR HELD UNDER
HOUSE ARREST.
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6. 4. WHO DOES HAROON MEET OUTSIDE OF THE
COURTROOM AND HOW HAS THIS PERSON
CHANGED? (PAGE 118)
• HAROON SEES HIS SISTER, ZANA.
• SHE IS WEARING AN ABAYA
(OR BURKA).

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