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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 Donna say about Dray in Chapter 11?

2. In Chapter 4, what plays on the news?

3. Who does Fabiola's hair in Chapter 14?

4. What had Chantal done when her father had died as said in "Chantal's Story"?

5. How does Fabiola feel in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Kasim take Fabiola on a date in Chapter 14? What does he say about her when she is nervous going?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happens with Fabiola’s paper in Chapter 12? What does Mr. Nolan offer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fabiola contrasts her experience in Haiti against what she finds in America when she first arrives. As she continues through the novel, she continues contrasting and finding her homeland in relief against her new home. How does she reveal that Haiti and America are different or similar to one another? What is it that makes up these differences or similarities? How is her interpretation a part of the process of becoming something new in a new place?

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

Fabiola's determination to intercede in her mother's detention, and Dray's relationship with Donna, leads to her mother coming home, but Kasim dead. Does Fabiola need to interfere like she chooses to do? What are the consequences of her interference? Why does she not wait as she is told to by her aunt and cousins?

Make this a twofold paper where you say what you think about her decision and also what the novel is saying: is it saying you must interfere to change fate, or you must sit back?

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