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

2. How does Kasim look when he sees Fabiola's new look in Chapter 18?

3. In Chapter 32, what does Fabiola think about the mountains in America?

4. What business did Andrian Weiss get into after being fired from his job?

5. In Chapter 31, who shoots Dray?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 22, who does Fabiola ignore? Why does she ignore him?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do the Francois sisters intend in Chapter 26 to pay back Q? How does Fabiola feel about this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anger and hatred fuel actions in the novel, such as Fabiola's grudge towards Dray or fights with other women. How does the novel represent anger and hatred? What does it show about how it acts, how it impacts others, and how it feels for the person who feels it? How does individual anger relate to an anger at something larger than any person?

Start with the passage where Fabiola passes out after fighting Tonesha and Raquel (254). Then find three other examples in the novel to develop a thesis about what the novel is saying about anger and hatred, how it is felt, its role in the world, and its place in America.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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