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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 find on the beach?

2. Where does Sarah want to spend the day with Little Bee?

3. What did Sarah suggest to help her and Andrew work things out?

4. What does Little Bee tell Sarah on the way home?

5. Where does Little Bee spend the night after the funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Little Bee and her sister?

2. What happened after Andrew found out about Sarah's affair?

3. Why did Sarah return home early from work the day after the funeral?

4. Why might Sarah be determined to help Little Bee?

5. Why does Sarah want to help Little Bee?

6. How does Little Bee try to coax Charlie out of his Batman costume while they are at the beach?

7. How did Little Bee escape from the oil men?

8. Why does Lawrence dislike Little Bee?

9. How did Sarah and Lawrence meet?

10. What has happened at Charlie's nursery school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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