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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. Who helps Charlie when he is upset at the grave site?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Little Bee.
(d) His Aunt Laura.

2. What nationality is Sarah?
(a) Italian.
(b) American.
(c) Nigerian.
(d) British.

3. What did the oil men do to Little Bee's village?
(a) They killed everyone.
(b) They forced them into labor.
(c) They gave them money.
(d) They took them hostage.

4. How long ago was Sarah and Andrew's vacation in Nigeria?
(a) Six weeks ago.
(b) Two years ago.
(c) Two months ago.
(d) Six months ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah realize during the ceremony at the grave site?

2. What did Little Bee do when the oil men came to her village?

3. What outfit does Charlie always wear?

4. How did Sarah try to communicate with Andrew the morning he died?

5. How did Andrew die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the oil men?

4. What does Charlie do at the graveside burial?

5. How did Sarah and Andrew become involved with Little Bee, her sister and the oil men?

6. Why does Sarah ask Little Bee to discuss the day on the Nigerian beach two years before?

7. How did Sarah fail Charlie at the burial?

8. What did Sarah and Andrew do in response to the oil men's bargain?

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

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

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