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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. Who does Fabiola realize Bad Leg is in Chapter 8?

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

3. According to Majorie and Valerie's Story, what happened after the revolution?

4. According to Majorie and Valerie's Story, why had the sisters left Haiti?

5. What does Fabiola get to do in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, who shows up outside Kasim’s cafe? What does Imani do with who shows up?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 13, what happens when Dray drives home? What does Fabiola think about Dray?

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

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

8. Why does Pri say in Primadonna's Story that she goes hard for Dray? How does she justify their relationship?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Thirty Two, Pri asks Fabiola about her Vodou items, and Fabiola says, 'It is my life" (321). What does she mean by this? How is this idea shown throughout the novel? How is Vodou, and its philosophy, make up Fabiola's character? Go through the novel and find at least three examples to show how Vodou is a part of Fabiola's life, and how each example shows how it is a part of her.

Wrap this into a claim: what is the novel saying about the role of spirituality?

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