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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. Who does Michel say was “orphaned” by the dictator’s departure (140)?
(a) Business owners.
(b) Haiti’s poor.
(c) International businessmen.
(d) Haiti’s secret police.

2. How does Nadine characterize the woman she sees reflected in the elevator doors?
(a) Unrecognizable.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Forgotten.
(d) Beautiful.

3. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?
(a) It is the day Nadine is going to call her family.
(b) It is the day Eric had promised to be with Nadine.
(c) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.
(d) It is the day Eric’s wife arrives.

4. What is Dany’s relationship with Tante Estina?
(a) She is his grandmother.
(b) She is his mother’s aunt.
(c) She is his father’s sister.
(d) She is his father’s old friend.

5. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?
(a) In her bed.
(b) In her living room.
(c) In the subway.
(d) In the hospital cafeteria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What future testimony does the narrator use to fill out her description of events in the final chapter?

2. Why does Claude say he is lucky?

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

4. How old is Ms. Hinds?

5. When does Anne go up to the man her daughter thought was Emmanuel Constant?

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