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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. How does Little Bee escape?

2. Why does Sarah come home early from work?

3. What did Little Bee find in the jungle while they were lost?

4. What do Sarah and Lawrence begin to argue about?

5. What happens between Little Bee and Lawrence when she returns to the beach after talking to Sarah?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Little Bee want to stay with Sarah and Charlie for a while?

2. Why didn't Little Bee help Andrew as he struggled during death?

3. What did Little Bee do that may have contributed to Andrew's death?

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

5. How did Sarah and Lawrence meet?

6. What happened to Little Bee and her sister?

7. What does Little Bee want to know about when she and Sarah go to the store for milk?

8. Why does Sarah want to know what happened to Little Bee and her sister after they were dragged away from Sarah and Andrew?

9. Did the trip to Nigeria help or hurt Sarah and Andrew's relationship?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

From what you have read, how does the author feel about the immigration policies in the United Kingdom? How do you know this? What evidence can you find from the text to support your assertion? Why might the author have written this book?

Essay Topic 2

By the time Andrew and Sarah took their trip to Nigeria Sarah had already been engaged in an affair. As the book moves forward the reader discovers that the O'Rourke's marriage had not been a good one for some time before the terrible events on the Nigerian beach. Do you think that Sarah and Andrew's marriage could have been saved? Why or why not? Do you think that the events on the beach are really what ended their relationship? Or do you feel that the experience bonded them in a way that they could not leave each other?

Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

The antagonist in a story is not always an obvious "bad guy". The oil men are obvious antagonist, but what about Sarah's lover Lawrence? Would you classify Lawrence as antagonist (someone whom the hero/heroine struggles against) or would you classify him as a protagonist (someone helpful to the hero/heroine)?

Choose either antagonist or protagonist (no in between). Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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