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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 Fabiola tell Kasim that surprises him in Chapter 9?

2. Where do Imani and Fabiola go in Chapter 12?

3. What does Chantal say America is to her, as said in "Chantal's Story"?

4. In "Primadonna's Story," what does Donna say about Pri calling her a ho?

5. How does her mother feel to Fabiola at the end of Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Matant Jo's Story," how does Matant Jo describe her feeling after Philip's death? What does she says she thinks Fabiola will do about this?

3. Who is the woman Fabiola goes to the restaurant with in Chapter 9? What does the woman want?

4. At the nightclub, what does Fabiola remember about the boys back home? What does she think when she meets Dray?

5. How did Pri start fighting as she says in "Princess's Story"? Who does she fight to protect?

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

7. Where does Kasim take Fabiola on a date in Chapter 14? What does he say about her when she is nervous going?

8. What is the sister's nickname as said in "Princess's Story" Why are they known as this?

9. What does Chantal do in Chapter 6 when Mrs. Stanley asks for Fabiola's documents? How does Chantal describe her mother?

10. What does Majorie say in Majorie and Valerie's Story happened after the fall of the dictator? Why did they come to America?

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

Research the earthquake in Haiti. Use two sources to write about what happened. Then look at how Fabiola remembers the experience of being in the earthquake and how she relates this to the events at the end of the novel. How is the book a memory project of the events of the earthquake? How does it show a survivor of an event such as this continues to interpret their experience after it happens?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, Fabiola says, "I realize that everyone is climbing their own mountain here in America. They are tall and mighty and they live in hearts and everyday lives of the people. And I am not a pebble in the valley. I am a mountain" (324).

From this quote, what are the mountains in the lives of all of the characters? What is Fabiola's mountain? How do she, and each of them climb it in the novel? Choose two characters in addition to her for a four-page analysis with textual examples. Finally, what does this quote say about what it means to be American or live in America?

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