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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 upsets Fabiola in Chapter 12?

2. In Chapter 5, what does Chantal give Mrs. Stanley instead of Fabiola's documents?

3. In "Princess' Story," when does Pri say finances got better?

4. Where do Imani and Fabiola go in Chapter 12?

5. What do Kasim and Fabiola do at the end of Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the sister's nickname as said in "Princess's Story" Why are they known as this?

2. What does Fabiola do to worship in the morning in Chapter 2? When Chantal asks, what does she say about why she does this?

3. What does the lady Fabiola meets in Chapter 6 ask her? What does Fabiola see as she drives away with her cousins?

4. What does Fabiola do to Pri's hair in Chapter 4? How does this make Fabiola feel?

5. How did Pri start fighting as she says in "Princess's Story"? Who does she fight to protect?

6. In Chapter 13, who shows up outside Kasim’s cafe? What does Imani do with who shows up?

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

8. What does Bad Leg tell Fabiola about his leg in Chapter 8? What does she realize about him?

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

10. What does Fabiola tell her cousins about her mother in Chapter 2? What do her cousins say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the beginning of the novel, Fabiola is separated from her mother. By the end of the novel, she is on her way to be reunited with her mother, but the novel does not actually include her being reunited. Why does the novel not show this reunification? What is the novel instead about through the process of Fabiola returning to her mother?

Essay Topic 2

Fabiola contrasts her experience in Haiti against what she finds in America when she first arrives. As she continues through the novel, she continues contrasting and finding her homeland in relief against her new home. How does she reveal that Haiti and America are different or similar to one another? What is it that makes up these differences or similarities? How is her interpretation a part of the process of becoming something new in a new place?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Twenty Six where Fabiola says, "...I swallow and let them fill my body as if I've just eaten [Dray's] soul" (269). How does her decision to do this connect to what she says at the end of the novel, "We have to become everything we want. Consume it. Like our lwas" (320)? How does Fabiola, metaphorically or literally, become Dray, or Baron Samedi? What in her actions come to mirror Dray's actions in becoming him? Write what this says about the morality of how she and Dray both act.

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