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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 Fabiola tell the cousins in Chapter 27 about magic?

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

3. In Chapter 30, what does Fabiola run upstairs for?

4. What does Imani joke about Fabiola in Chapter 20?

5. In "Drayton's Story," what does Dray say about his first death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 32, what does Fabiola think as she looks at the Michigan landscape? What does she say about the American people?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fabiola's determination to intercede in her mother's detention, and Dray's relationship with Donna, leads to her mother coming home, but Kasim dead. Does Fabiola need to interfere like she chooses to do? What are the consequences of her interference? Why does she not wait as she is told to by her aunt and cousins?

Make this a twofold paper where you say what you think about her decision and also what the novel is saying: is it saying you must interfere to change fate, or you must sit back?

Essay Topic 3

The crossroads of American Street and Joy Road are the intersection of 8800 American Street. In the beginning of the novel, Fabiola realizes she must choose between either street for her future (112). What does she eventually choose? How does her choice affect the Francois family and herself? What influences her to make her decision?

Finally, consider what road the family drives down at the end to pick up her mother. What does this represent about the events of the novel and Fabiola's choice?

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