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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: The Dew Breaker.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?
(a) Port-au-Prince Haiti.
(b) Washington, DC.
(c) New York City.
(d) Lakeland, Florida.

3. Where have Anne and her husband gone to get Ka for this Christmas mass?
(a) Westchester county.
(b) Rockland county.
(c) Ulster county.
(d) Jersey City.

4. How old is Freda?
(a) 29.
(b) 17.
(c) 22.
(d) 14.

5. Why is Ms. Hinds upset, when Nadine is called to her room?
(a) She cannot speak.
(b) She is having a bad reaction to her medicines.
(c) She cannot see.
(d) She feels a lot of pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mariselle get a job after she completes her degree?

2. What does Gabrielle Fonteneau say she liked about the sculpture?

3. How does Nadine’s mother characterize her father’s health in her letter to Nadine?

4. How much weight has Anne’s husband lost since moving to the U.S.?

5. How does the dew breaker tell whether the boy who buys him cigarettes is a good student or not?

(see the answer key)

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