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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 call Kasim in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 2, what does the airport desk say about Fabiola's mother?

3. According to Majorie and Valerie's Story, who had Valerie prayed to on the boat?

4. In Chapter 2, who is Fabiola meeting in Detroit?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What does Fabiola do to worship in the morning in Chapter 2? When Chantal asks, what does she say about why she does this?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Anger and hatred fuel actions in the novel, such as Fabiola's grudge towards Dray or fights with other women. How does the novel represent anger and hatred? What does it show about how it acts, how it impacts others, and how it feels for the person who feels it? How does individual anger relate to an anger at something larger than any person?

Start with the passage where Fabiola passes out after fighting Tonesha and Raquel (254). Then find three other examples in the novel to develop a thesis about what the novel is saying about anger and hatred, how it is felt, its role in the world, and its place in America.

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