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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. How many other girls were released because of Yvette?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

2. Where is Little Bee headed when she leaves the detention center?
(a) To see Sarah.
(b) To see her sister.
(c) To see Andrew.
(d) To see her mother.

3. What does Sarah ask Little Bee to remember?
(a) Her feelings for her sister.
(b) The funeral details.
(c) Her time in the detention center.
(d) The day on the Nigerian beach where they met.

4. What did Little Bee and her sister beg the couple to do?
(a) Feed them.
(b) Give them money,
(c) Take them to their hotel.
(d) Buy them guns.

5. What does Little Bee face if she returns to Nigeria?
(a) A family reunion.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Certain death.
(d) A heavy fine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Little Bee wish to escape Nigeria?

2. What does this mean for Little Bee?

3. Where do Little Bee and the other girls wait for their taxi?

4. What does Charlie do as Andrew's coffin is lowered into the ground?

5. What point of view is this story written in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Little Bee's lie to the taxi company tell the reader about her character?

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

3. Why does Little Bee decide to leave the farm?

4. How did Sarah fail Charlie at the burial?

5. Who is Yvette?

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

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

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

9. What did the oil men demand from Sarah and Andrew in exchange for the girls' lives?

10. What does Sarah come to realize about Andrew's depression during the funeral?

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