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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 Sarah feel killed her husband?

2. Who released Yvette from the detention center?

3. How does the taxi driver react to the girls?

4. Where has Little Bee lived for the past two years?

5. What did the girls see on the beach in the morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why might the taxi company refuse to pick up immigrants?

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

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

9. Who are the oil men?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Little Bee has always promised herself that she would commit suicide if she were ever caught and taken back to Nigeria. However, once she is faced with being taken away from Sarah by soldiers she feels differently. She no longer thinks about dying, but about living. What has changed inside Little Bee? How does she view the world now? How does she view life? What has caused these changes in Little Bee's thinking?

Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

In the end of the novel, Little Bee is returned home to face the nightmare she tried to hide from. Sarah and Charlie must watch, helpless, as Little Bee faces her destiny.

1) Do you like the ending? Why or why not?

2) Could things have ended differently for the characters?

3) Should things have ended differently for the characters?

4) What do you feel is the ultimate message of the story?

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