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

2. In Chapter 31, what does Chantal send Fabiola upstairs for?

3. What does Fabiola feel as she fights in Chapter 25?

4. What does Fabiola tell Kasim at the end of Chapter 28?

5. What does Fabiola realize in Chapter 17 that the Three Bees are protecting in addition to their bodies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Kasim's Story," how does Kasim say Dray and Q have been for him and his mother?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Fabiola first comes to America, she feels as if she leaves her mother, her heart, behind. How does her feeling towards her mother change in the novel? How does Fabiola come to realize throughout the novel that her mother has raised her? How is the way she is raised compared to her cousins show a cultural difference between immigrants and first generation immigrants?

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

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.

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