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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 realize in Chapter 11?

2. How old was Chantal when her father died?

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

4. What does Papa Legba sing to Fabiolain Chapter 8?

5. What does Kasim say when Fabiola worries about her clothes in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

When Dray dies, in the next chapter, "Drayton's Story," he says that you realize after death you have died before and recalls how he previously died while running with a bullet to the head (313). How do his lives and deaths connect to the larger struggle of systematic racism? Tie his story to one other character's story. How are they fighting against something larger than themselves? What is the novel saying with this circularity about the history of racism and systematic struggle?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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