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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 did the girls see on the beach in the morning?

2. How long ago was Sarah and Andrew's vacation in Nigeria?

3. Who is Little Bee allowed to call on the telephone?

4. What nationality is Sarah?

5. Why did the couple go to Nigeria?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Sarah fail Charlie at the burial?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Little Bee know Andrew?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Everyone in the book "Little Bee" allows their fear and disappointment to effect their lives. What are the following characters afraid of? How has their fear effected them? Provide examples from the text to support your assertions.

1) Andrew

2) Little Bee

3) Sarah

4) Charlie

5) Lawrence

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 7 Little Bee explains to Lawrence that she was a witness to Andrew's suicide. She also admits that she might have been a catalyst in his decision to hang himself. How do you feel about what Little Bee has done?

1) Do you think that her actions at the O'Rourke home the day of the suicide are justified? Why or why not?

2) Compare Little Bee's failure to save Andrew with Andrew's failure to save Little Bee's sister. Who's crime is worse? Why?

3) Why do you think Little Bee chose to tell Lawrence of her failure to save Andrew?

4) Does this change how you feel about Little Bee? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Little Bee has said that Little Bee is not her true name, but is one that she created for herself while she and her sister were running from the oil men. Why did Little Bee change her name? How does her new name allow her to hide from her past? Do you think that Little Bee has hidden from her past very well? Why or why not?

Use examples from the text to support your answers.

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