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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. Where does Bad Leg tell Fabiola in Chapter 8 he left his leg?

2. What do Fabiola and Dray do for their date in Chapter 14?

3. What happens when Drew and Imani pull-in at home in Chapter 13?

4. What is Shawna Stevens investigating in Chapter 9?

5. What does Matant Jo believe about her sister as said in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Fabiola hear singing out the window in Chapter 2? What happens to him?

2. Who picks Fabiola up in Chapter 9? What do they do together?

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

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

5. What does Matant Jo say about Papa Legba in Chapter 16? What does she say about Fabiola believing in him?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

The crossroads of American Street and Joy Road are the intersection of 8800 American Street. In the beginning of the novel, Fabiola realizes she must choose between either street for her future (112). What does she eventually choose? How does her choice affect the Francois family and herself? What influences her to make her decision?

Finally, consider what road the family drives down at the end to pick up her mother. What does this represent about the events of the novel and Fabiola's choice?

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