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

2. Chapter 2 is written from which character's point of view?

3. What does Sarah realize during the funeral?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Little Bee know Andrew?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why might Sarah have invited Little Bee to attend Andrew's funeral?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sarah tries to do everything she can to help Little Bee after the girl is detained by the police. She continues to help the girl even after Little Bee tells her she was there when Andrew died. Why do you think helping Little Bee is so important to Sarah? Is she driven by guilt? Fear? Obligation? Love? Why do you feel the way you do?

Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Would Little Bee have been sent back to Nigeria if Yvette hadn't had her released illegally from the detention center? Why or why not? What are you basing your theory on? Provide examples to support your theory.

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