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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 Matant Joy say to Fabiola in Chapter 23?

2. What does Kasim give Fabiola in Chapter 20?

3. What does the Francois family celebrate in Chapter 23?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 31, what has happened to Dray? How is Bad Leg related to this?

10. What does Fabiola tell to Dray in Chapter 26? What does she intend to do with him doing 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

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 3

The back stories in the novel are revealed to Fabiola bit by bit as the novel progresses. How does this reveal strategic to the events of the novel? How does each reveal of another character's story build growing moral ambiguity? With the reveal of these stories, what is the novel saying about what is right or wrong? Choose three of the backstories revealed in the novel to answer these questions.

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