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

2. In Chapter 2, what does the airport desk say about Fabiola's mother?

3. What had Chantal done when her father had died as said in "Chantal's Story"?

4. What do people call Donna and Dray as said in Chapter 7?

5. In "Primadonna's Story," what does Donna say about her and Dray fighting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the woman Fabiola goes to the restaurant with in Chapter 9? What does the woman want?

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

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

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

6. Where do Imani and Fabiola go in Chapter 12 and what do they do there? What worries Fabiola while she is there?

7. What question does Fabiola ask Kasim that makes him angry in Chapter 11? Why does it?

8. What does Matant Jo say about Papa Legba in Chapter 16? What does she say about Fabiola believing in him?

9. What intersections does the Francois house rest on? What does Fabiola realize about this in Chapter 11?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter Thirty Two, Pri asks Fabiola about her Vodou items, and Fabiola says, 'It is my life" (321). What does she mean by this? How is this idea shown throughout the novel? How is Vodou, and its philosophy, make up Fabiola's character? Go through the novel and find at least three examples to show how Vodou is a part of Fabiola's life, and how each example shows how it is a part of her.

Wrap this into a claim: what is the novel saying about the role of spirituality?

Essay Topic 2

Fabiola says she becomes American in the novel with everything the Bees show her. How is this relationship of changing between her and the family reciprocal? How does Fabiola's arrival in the family change their lives, thoughts, and actions? What is the novel showing by this about how relationships between family works?

Essay Topic 3

When Fabiola first comes to America, she feels as if she leaves her mother, her heart, behind. How does her feeling towards her mother change in the novel? How does Fabiola come to realize throughout the novel that her mother has raised her? How is the way she is raised compared to her cousins show a cultural difference between immigrants and first generation immigrants?

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