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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kasim say when Fabiola worries about her clothes in Chapter 14?
(a) That he likes her as she is.
(b) That she looks beautiful.
(c) That she is "reppin the east side" (143).
(d) That it does not matter if she has a "bougie heart" (143).

2. What does Papa Legba tell Fabiola in Chapter 15?
(a) That her worries are over.
(b) That her jailbird will be released.
(c) That all will end well.
(d) That she is starting afresh.

3. What will Shawna Stevens trade to Fabiola for information in Chapter 9?
(a) An American visa for Fabiola.
(b) A pardon for Dray.
(c) A pardon for Kasim.
(d) Her mother's freedom.

4. In "Primadonna's Story," what does Donna say about her and Dray fighting?
(a) That they want one another to be their best person.
(b) That they are always at one another's throats.
(c) That sometimes they fight each other but they also fight for each other.
(d) That they do not know how to separate.

5. Why does Donna say in "Primadonna's Story" that she goes hard for Dray?
(a) Because she loves him.
(b) Because he goes hard for her.
(c) Because she wants him to love her.
(d) Because he is the only guy she has been with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chantal say Fabiola does to her, as said in "Chantal's Story"?

2. What is Shawna Stevens investigating in Chapter 9?

3. What do Fabiola and Dray do for their date in Chapter 14?

4. What does Donna ask Fabiola in Chapter 11?

5. According to Majorie and Valerie's Story, who had Valerie prayed to on the boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pri say in Primadonna's Story that she goes hard for Dray? How does she justify their relationship?

2. What had Fabiola and her mother done as Fabiola says in Chapter 7 to protect the family? When had they started doing this?

3. What does Majorie say in Majorie and Valerie's Story happened after the fall of the dictator? Why did they come to America?

4. What does Chantal say about Bad Legs in Chapter 8? What does Fabiola resolve to do?

5. How does Chantal describe her body in "Chantal's Story"? What does Fabiola make her do?

6. What has happened to Fabiola's aunt as she tells Fabiola in Chapter 2? How does she feel about death?

7. In "Matant Jo's Story," how does Matant Jo describe her feeling after Philip's death? What does she says she thinks Fabiola will do about this?

8. Who picks Fabiola up in Chapter 9? What do they do together?

9. At the nightclub, what does Fabiola remember about the boys back home? What does she think when she meets Dray?

10. What surprises Fabiola about the Detroit airport in Chapter 1? Who is she meeting?

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