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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Little Bee do when the oil men came to her village?
(a) She and her sister ran into the jungle.
(b) She and her sister hid in their apartment.
(c) She killed two of the men.
(d) She played dead.

2. What did the hotel security guard want the couple to do?
(a) Not talk to strangers.
(b) Learn to use guns.
(c) Stay on the beach.
(d) Return to the hotel.

3. Why does Little Bee run away?
(a) She is sad and wants time alone.
(b) She is afraid of being accused of murder.
(c) She is afraid of being deported.
(d) She stole money and must leave.

4. What does Little Bee realize as she is outside waiting for the taxi?
(a) She wants to go back to Nigeria.
(b) She has no food.
(c) She doesn't know the language.
(d) She is afraid of being free.

5. How did the person who released Yvette hide what they did?
(a) They didn't.
(b) By falsifying papers.
(c) By shredding Yvette's paperwork.
(d) By letting others go also.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Little Bee discover when she wakes during the night?

2. Who does Sarah find on her doorstep as she is leaving for a funeral?

3. Who does Little Bee blame for her sister's death?

4. What does Sarah ask Little Bee to remember?

5. What is the name of Andrew's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charlie do at the graveside burial?

2. What does Sarah conclude caused Andrew's depression?

3. Where is Sarah going when Little Bee knocks on her door?

4. How did Little Bee and her sister meet Sarah and Andrew?

5. What horrible truth does Little Bee learn from Yvette while at the dormitory?

6. Who does Little Bee call from the detention center?

7. Why has Little Bee been a detention center for so long?

8. Why might the author have written this book about immigration?

9. Why might the taxi company refuse to pick up immigrants?

10. Why does the taxi driver become angry and leave the girls at the detention center?

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