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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 did Little Bee do when the oil men came to her village?

2. Where do Little Bee and the other girls wait for their taxi?

3. What does Sarah ask Little Bee to remember?

4. Who helps Charlie when he is upset at the grave site?

5. What does Little Bee realize as she is outside waiting for the taxi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Little Bee call from the detention center?

2. What does Sarah conclude caused Andrew's depression?

3. Why does Little Bee decide to leave the farm?

4. Why has Little Bee been a detention center for so long?

5. How does Little Bee know Andrew?

6. Who are the oil men?

7. Why might Sarah have invited Little Bee to attend Andrew's funeral?

8. What does Sarah come to realize about Andrew's depression during the funeral?

9. Why might the author have written this book about immigration?

10. Where do the girls end up staying the night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Everyone in the book "Little Bee" allows their fear and disappointment to effect their lives. What are the following characters afraid of? How has their fear effected them? Provide examples from the text to support your assertions.

1) Andrew

2) Little Bee

3) Sarah

4) Charlie

5) Lawrence

Essay Topic 2

Sarah tries to do everything she can to help Little Bee after the girl is detained by the police. She continues to help the girl even after Little Bee tells her she was there when Andrew died. Why do you think helping Little Bee is so important to Sarah? Is she driven by guilt? Fear? Obligation? Love? Why do you feel the way you do?

Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

By the time Andrew and Sarah took their trip to Nigeria Sarah had already been engaged in an affair. As the book moves forward the reader discovers that the O'Rourke's marriage had not been a good one for some time before the terrible events on the Nigerian beach. Do you think that Sarah and Andrew's marriage could have been saved? Why or why not? Do you think that the events on the beach are really what ended their relationship? Or do you feel that the experience bonded them in a way that they could not leave each other?

Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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