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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. In Chapter 31, what does Chantal send Fabiola upstairs for?

2. What does Fabiola ask Dray for in Chapter 26?

3. What is the Haitian saying that Fabiola tells Chantal in Chapter 29?

4. What does Fabiola tell Kasim in Chapter 22?

5. In Chapter 32, what does the Francois family do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fabiola tell to Dray in Chapter 26? What does she intend to do with him doing this?

2. In Chapter 31, what has happened to Dray? How is Bad Leg related to this?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to Donna in the evening in Chapter 23? What does Fabiola think about America?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Fabiola arrives, she is an immigrant with all of the American behaviors and customs unfamiliar to her. By the end of the novel, she has changed into something different. What is her transformation in the novel? How does she become the "Fourth Bee"? How does she become "American"? Finally, how does her transformation include her previous Haitian identity with her new self, and what does this say about living in a new place as an immigrant?

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

Kasim's name literally means "divided among many" (36). How does the meaning of his name come to play out in the novel? How does his name show how he is connected to the other characters? Write a response to his character and how he is connected to others.

Then connect his death and how the novel treats his death to the larger pattern of police shootings towards black and brown young men in American. How is the novel tying Kasim to the larger social picture? Why, through this analysis, is it Kasim who is killed?

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