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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 does Dray pull Imani in for in Chapter 13?

2. What do Kasim and Fabiola go to eat in Chapter 9?

3. In Chapter 4, what plays on the news?

4. What does Fabiola see in Chapter 6 as she pulls away from the store?

5. What does Bad Leg tell people about his leg as said in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Matant Jo's Story," how did Matant Jo come over to America? Who of the girls did she bring with her?

2. What surprises Fabiola about the Detroit airport in Chapter 1? Who is she meeting?

3. What does Fabiola do to Pri's hair in Chapter 4? How does this make Fabiola feel?

4. What intersections does the Francois house rest on? What does Fabiola realize about this in Chapter 11?

5. Where does Fabiola go in Chapter 15? What does she do as a result?

6. What question does Fabiola ask Kasim that makes him angry in Chapter 11? Why does it?

7. What does the lady Fabiola meets in Chapter 6 ask her? What does Fabiola see as she drives away with her cousins?

8. What had Fabiola and her mother done as Fabiola says in Chapter 7 to protect the family? When had they started doing this?

9. What does Chantal say about Bad Legs in Chapter 8? What does Fabiola resolve to do?

10. What does Bad Leg tell Fabiola about his leg in Chapter 8? What does she realize about him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the beginning of the novel, Fabiola is separated from her mother. By the end of the novel, she is on her way to be reunited with her mother, but the novel does not actually include her being reunited. Why does the novel not show this reunification? What is the novel instead about through the process of Fabiola returning to her mother?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Twenty Six where Fabiola says, "...I swallow and let them fill my body as if I've just eaten [Dray's] soul" (269). How does her decision to do this connect to what she says at the end of the novel, "We have to become everything we want. Consume it. Like our lwas" (320)? How does Fabiola, metaphorically or literally, become Dray, or Baron Samedi? What in her actions come to mirror Dray's actions in becoming him? Write what this says about the morality of how she and Dray both act.

Essay Topic 3

When Fabiola arrives, she is an immigrant with all of the American behaviors and customs unfamiliar to her. By the end of the novel, she has changed into something different. What is her transformation in the novel? How does she become the "Fourth Bee"? How does she become "American"? Finally, how does her transformation include her previous Haitian identity with her new self, and what does this say about living in a new place as an immigrant?

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