The Dew Breaker Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 154 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Dew Breaker Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 154 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 is Old Zo’s response when Dany asks if he knows Estina?

2. Who does Michel say was “orphaned” by the dictator’s departure (140)?

3. What kind of days do Freda, Mariselle and Rézia raise their glasses to?

4. Who does Aline run into when she is looking into the house she thinks belongs to the Haitian prison guard?

5. Who is Romain’s father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the title of the "Monkey Tails" chapter?

2. What does the main character of "Night Talkers" do is his dream?

3. Why does Michel say he understood things he should have been too young to understand?

4. How is Aline failing to follow her editor’s advice in the interview?

5. Who is Michel’s father, and who is Romain’s?

6. What does Beatrice ultimately tell us about the character of Ka’s father?

7. How does Danticat characterize the events in the streets of Port-au-Prince?

8. Who are Beatrice Saint Ford and Aline Cajuste?

9. How does the narrator characterize Dany’s relationship with Denise Auguste?

10. Under what conditions did Freda’s father disappear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the audience for The Dew Breaker? What is the ideal reader for The Dew Breaker likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of love in The Dew Breaker? Who loves, and what kinds of relationships or actions are called love? What are the other kinds of love, and what do casual or other kinds of relationships do for the people who have them? What is the relationship between trauma and love? Does love heal it? Is love merely a refuge? Or is love just a way to recycle trauma by making another person complicit in it?

Essay Topic 3

What topics would you like to research further, after reading The Dew Breaker. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on The Dew Breaker.

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