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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Night Talkers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ka explain to Gabrielle Fonteneau that she does not have the sculpture?
(a) She says that she could not part with it.
(b) She says that it fell apart in transit.
(c) She says that another buyer claimed it.
(d) She says that her father did not like it.

2. What has made the Cenegal nightclub famous since the days when Eric and Dany used to go there?
(a) The new DJ.
(b) The police attack on Patrick Dorismond.
(c) The police attack on Abner Louima.
(d) The police attack on Amadou Diallo.

3. What procedure has Ms. Hinds had performed in the hospital?
(a) Hysterectomy.
(b) Laryngectomy.
(c) Lumpectomy.
(d) Cataract surgery.

4. What is Nadine’s reputation on the ward where she works?
(a) Professional and cold.
(b) Open and confiding
(c) Conspiratorial.
(d) Not friendly.

5. What does Dany tell his aunt about in his dream?
(a) Finding where the dew breaker lived.
(b) Murdering the dew breaker in his sleep.
(c) Finding other people who knew the dew breaker.
(d) Standing over the dew breaker where he slept.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Claude accept Dany’s apology so quickly?

2. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?

3. What had Constant’s role been in Haiti, before he moved to the U.S.?

4. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?

5. What does the next letter Nadine receives from her parents have to report?

(see the answer key)

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