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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 Little Bee discover when she wakes during the night?

2. What nationality is Sarah?

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

4. How did the couple react to the guard's request?

5. What did the hotel security guard want the couple to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does being an illegal immigrant ultimately mean for Little Bee?

2. What does Charlie do at the graveside burial?

3. How does Little Bee know Andrew?

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

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

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

7. Who are the oil men?

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

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

10. Where do the girls end up staying the night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sarah has a number of realizations while attending Andrew's funeral. How has she failed both Andrew and Charlie? Why did she ignore Andrew's feelings? Why did she not prepare Charlie for the funeral as she should have? How could she have done things differently?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 9 Sarah, Charlie, Little Bee and Lawrence spend the day on the beach at the Thames river in London. This scene has many parallels to the day on the Nigerian beach two years before. What are some of the similarities and differences between the two scenes? Who is being asked to sacrifice themselves for a child now? Why do you think the author might have written the scene in this way?

Essay Topic 3

Sarah believes that she, Charlie, Little Bee and Andrew have all taken on personae that they hide behind. Charlie's desire to be Batman is the most obvious example of this. What personae have these characters taken on? Why might they have chosen to hide from their realities? Would their lives have been different if they had faced up to their fears?

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