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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 do Fabiola and Kasim do in Chapter 28?

2. What does Fabiola find out about her education in Chapter 21?

3. What does Fabiola tell the cousins in Chapter 27 about her mother?

4. In "Kasim's Story," what does Kasim say he did because of his nickname?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do Kasim and Fabiola do in Chapter 28 at Kasim's house? What does Fabiola tell Kasim at the end of the Chapter?

8. What does Fabiola prepare in Chapter 23? How does she change it from how it is supposed to be?

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

10. In "8800 American Street," what happens with the house? What sets up at the crossroads of American Street and Joy Road?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Fabiola can be seen as taking on the traits of the lwas in different parts of the novel, the structure of a crossroad, leading into vengeance, and finally death.

How does the structure of the novel according to the lwas relate to how Fabiola thinks about the earthquake in Haiti in the last several chapters? What is this saying that an earthquake allows to happen or what happens after the quake?

Essay Topic 3

Fabiola says she becomes American in the novel with everything the Bees show her. How is this relationship of changing between her and the family reciprocal? How does Fabiola's arrival in the family change their lives, thoughts, and actions? What is the novel showing by this about how relationships between family works?

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