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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. Why does Dany have to make excuses when he sees people in his aunt’s town?
(a) For not remembering birthdays.
(b) For not sending money home.
(c) For not visiting sooner.
(d) For not sending gifts he had promised.

2. What does Aline say she learned was useful in her education?
(a) The similarity of cultures’ stories.
(b) The long history of injustices and violence in the Americas.
(c) The injustice of a psychology experiment.
(d) The beauty of the written word.

3. How long has it been since Eric has seen his wife, at the beginning of the "Seven" chapter?
(a) Seven days.
(b) Seven months.
(c) Seven years.
(d) Seven weeks.

4. What does Denise Auguste’s nickname Ti Fanm mean?
(a) Little Woman.
(b) Little helper.
(c) Seamstress.
(d) Wife.

5. How does the narrator say the dew breaker liked to work?
(a) To disappear school teachers who insulted them.
(b) To traumatize people he did not know.
(c) To return to his people and get revenge.
(d) To seek out the women who had turned him down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dany's pain while walking make him think of?

2. What does the narrator say Eric’s wife smells like?

3. Who are the people Aline wants to write about?

4. Where does the dew breaker come to kill the preacher?

5. How old was Claude when he killed his father?

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