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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 Matant Jo tell Dray to do in Chapter 19?

2. Who also comes to Thankgiving dinner in Chapter 23?

3. In Chapter 25, how does the chapter end?

4. How does Fabiola feel about Dray in Chapter 18?

5. Why is Donna mad at Dray in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where do the cousins and Fabiola go in Chapter 23? What does Dray come by and do?

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

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

5. In "Kasim's Story," how does Kasim say Dray and Q have been for him and his mother?

6. What does Fabiola tell her cousins in Chapter 27 about her and her mother? How does she connect this to Bag Leg?

7. Why does Donna break it off with Dray in Chapter 19? What does she do with him?

8. Why does Donna say she is aggressive towards Imani in Chapter 17? What does Fabiola realize about the sisters?

9. What does Fabiola dream in Chapter 21? Why does she dream this?

10. In "Drayton's Story," what does Dray say about dying? What does he realize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the beginning of the novel, Fabiola is separated from her mother. By the end of the novel, she is on her way to be reunited with her mother, but the novel does not actually include her being reunited. Why does the novel not show this reunification? What is the novel instead about through the process of Fabiola returning to her mother?

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

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?

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