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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 Imani joke about Fabiola in Chapter 20?

2. What does Fabiola ask Dray for in Chapter 26?

3. In "Drayton's Story," what does Dray say all the world did to him?

4. In Chapter 31, what was Fabiola doing when the earthquake hit?

5. What does Fabiola tell the cousins in Chapter 27 about her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kasim text Fabiola in Chapter 29? What does Papa Legba sing?

2. What happens to Donna in the evening in Chapter 23? What does Fabiola think about America?

3. What does Fabiola prepare in Chapter 23? How does she change it from how it is supposed to be?

4. In Chapter 32, what does the Francois family do with 8800 American Street? What do they drive away to do?

5. What does Fabiola tell the Francois sisters in Chapter 27? How does she convince them not to do this?

6. What does Fabiola find out about her cousins in Chapter 21? Why have they done this?

7. In "Drayton's Story," what does Dray reveal about his connection to Phillip? What had he felt because of that connection?

8. What does Fabiola dream in Chapter 21? Why does she dream this?

9. In Chapter 30, what does Dray do to Fabiola? What does she tell him to do?

10. What does Fabiola tell to Dray in Chapter 26? What does she intend to do with him doing this?

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

The crossroads of American Street and Joy Road are the intersection of 8800 American Street. In the beginning of the novel, Fabiola realizes she must choose between either street for her future (112). What does she eventually choose? How does her choice affect the Francois family and herself? What influences her to make her decision?

Finally, consider what road the family drives down at the end to pick up her mother. What does this represent about the events of the novel and Fabiola's choice?

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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