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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 Fabiola feel as she fights in Chapter 25?

2. What does Fabiola find out about her education in Chapter 21?

3. Who also shows up at the diner in Chapter 22?

4. In Chapter 32, what does Kasim's mother say when she meets Fabiola?

5. What happens at the beginning of Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fabiola see on Donna's phone in Chapter 18? What does she do with this?

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

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

4. What does Kasim give Imani in Chapter 20? What does she tell him about them hanging out?

5. In Chapter 31 where does Fabiola say she was when the Haiti earthquake hit? How does she relate this to when she opens her eyes in the present?

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

7. What do they see when they arrive back home in Chapter 30? What does Fabiola do?

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

9. Why does Donna break it off with Dray in Chapter 19? What does she do with him?

10. What do Kasim and Fabiola do in Chapter 28 at Kasim's house? What does Fabiola tell Kasim at the end of the Chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Fabiola arrives, she is an immigrant with all of the American behaviors and customs unfamiliar to her. By the end of the novel, she has changed into something different. What is her transformation in the novel? How does she become the "Fourth Bee"? How does she become "American"? Finally, how does her transformation include her previous Haitian identity with her new self, and what does this say about living in a new place as an immigrant?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

When Dray dies, in the next chapter, "Drayton's Story," he says that you realize after death you have died before and recalls how he previously died while running with a bullet to the head (313). How do his lives and deaths connect to the larger struggle of systematic racism? Tie his story to one other character's story. How are they fighting against something larger than themselves? What is the novel saying with this circularity about the history of racism and systematic struggle?

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