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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. Who is the older man in Chapter 21?

2. Where do the cousins and Matant Jo go in Chapter 22?

3. Who eventually bought 8800 American Street, as said in "8800 American Street"?

4. Why does Dray beat up Bad Leg in Chapter 24?

5. Why was Adrian fired from his Ford job?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Violence is a part of the neighborhood at 8800 American Street and a reality of life for Fabiola back in Haiti.

In the face of the threat of violence, how do characters adapt to survive? Choose three characters to compare their journeys and how they deal with the reality of their lives in the places they experience violence.

Tie their journeys to a larger discussion of how violence is represented similarly or differently in American and Haiti and where in each of these places, the source of the violence comes from.

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