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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. In Chapter 1, what happens with Fabiola and her mother?

2. In Chapter 2, how does Fabiola feel leaving the airport?

3. What does Fabiola call Kasim in Chapter 7?

4. Who does Fabiola find in Chapter 15 at Q's place?

5. What does Matant Jo do in Chapter 16 when Fabiola knocks on her door?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who does Fabiola meet in Chapter 6? How does this person describe her cousins?

6. How does Chantal describe her body in "Chantal's Story"? What does Fabiola make her do?

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

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

9. What does Fabiola tell her cousins about her mother in Chapter 2? What do her cousins say?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Donna and Dray's love for one another is complicated, while Fabiola and Kasim's relationship is fairly straightforward, but ends tragically. What role does love play for for these couples? What is their relationship with one another? How does it allow them to feel or change? How do they play out their feelings in other parts of their lives in their relationships?

Finally, answer in an analytical claim: why does the novel contrast these two examples of romantic relationships?

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

Fabiola can be seen as taking on the traits of the lwas in different parts of the novel, the structure of a crossroad, leading into vengeance, and finally death.

How does the structure of the novel according to the lwas relate to how Fabiola thinks about the earthquake in Haiti in the last several chapters? What is this saying that an earthquake allows to happen or what happens after the quake?

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