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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 Papa Legba sing to Fabiolain Chapter 8?

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

3. What does Chantal tell Fabiola in Chapter 11?

4. How does Kasim talk about selling weed occasionally in Chapter 9?

5. What will Shawna Stevens trade to Fabiola for information in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where do Imani and Fabiola go in Chapter 12 and what do they do there? What worries Fabiola while she is there?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens in the New York Airport in Chapter 1? What had Fabiola and her mother been planning?

9. What has happened to Fabiola's aunt as she tells Fabiola in Chapter 2? How does she feel about death?

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

When Dray dies, in the next chapter, "Drayton's Story," he says that you realize after death you have died before and recalls how he previously died while running with a bullet to the head (313). How do his lives and deaths connect to the larger struggle of systematic racism? Tie his story to one other character's story. How are they fighting against something larger than themselves? What is the novel saying with this circularity about the history of racism and systematic struggle?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

When Matant Jo comes to America, she continues to provide for her family back home. How does she come to feel towards her sister? What in America influences her to feel this way? How does the novel show this continuing to provide affects her relationship with her sister? What is the novel showing about relationships between families across borders?

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