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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 find out about her cousins in Chapter 21?

2. What has Fabiola been doing with Kasim in Chapter 22?

3. Why does Donna say she is picking on Imani in Chapter 17?

4. Why does Fabiola tell her cousins in Chapter 27 they can not do this?

5. Why does Fabiola not argue with Donna dressing her in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 32, what does the Francois family do with 8800 American Street? What do they drive away to do?

2. What does Fabiola find out about her cousins in Chapter 21? Why have they done this?

3. What does Fabiola tell the Francois sisters in Chapter 27? How does she convince them not to do this?

4. What does Kasim text Fabiola in Chapter 29? What does Papa Legba sing?

5. In "Drayton's Story," what does Dray reveal about his connection to Phillip? What had he felt because of that connection?

6. What does Fabiola see in Chapter 29 at the party behind the police tape? How does she feel about Kasim at the end?

7. In Chapter 32, what does Fabiola think as she looks at the Michigan landscape? What does she say about the American people?

8. What does Kasim give Imani in Chapter 20? What does she tell him about them hanging out?

9. What do they see when they arrive back home in Chapter 30? What does Fabiola do?

10. What does Fabiola see on Donna's phone in Chapter 18? What does she do with this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter Twenty One, Fabiola dreams of the history of 8800 American Street, and then in the next chapter the detailed history of 8800 American Street is revealed. What does this structure say about how Fabiola learns the stories revealed in the novel? Are they actually being spoken to her or does she learn them in other ways? If she learns them in other ways, what are these ways of knowing? Choose three of the backstories to develop an argument about how she knows these.

Finally, what is the novel saying by having these stories revealed in this way? What is Fabiola's role related to the other characters of the novel and to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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