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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 Joy say to Fabiola in Chapter 23?

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

3. What does Fabiola find out about her cousins in Chapter 21?

4. Where do Fabiola and the cousins go in Chapter 29?

5. What does the Francois family celebrate in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 30, what does Dray do to Fabiola? What does she tell him to do?

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

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 31 where does Fabiola say she was when the Haiti earthquake hit? How does she relate this to when she opens her eyes in the present?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

At the end of the novel, Fabiola says, "I realize that everyone is climbing their own mountain here in America. They are tall and mighty and they live in hearts and everyday lives of the people. And I am not a pebble in the valley. I am a mountain" (324).

From this quote, what are the mountains in the lives of all of the characters? What is Fabiola's mountain? How do she, and each of them climb it in the novel? Choose two characters in addition to her for a four-page analysis with textual examples. Finally, what does this quote say about what it means to be American or live in America?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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