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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eric notices his wife does at 5:11 p.m. while they are out in Brooklyn?
(a) Check her phone.
(b) Say she wants to go home.
(c) Take his hand.
(d) Look for someone in a crowd.

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

3. How does the narrator says that Anne feels about having stopped having epileptic seizures?
(a) Redeemed.
(b) Forgiven.
(c) Free.
(d) Resurrected.

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

5. How old is Ms. Hinds?
(a) 64.
(b) 32.
(c) 25.
(d) 39.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Eric’s declarations of love to his wife after she comes home with him?

2. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?

3. How does Ka explain to Gabrielle Fonteneau that she does not have the sculpture?

4. What is Emmanuel Constant wanted for?

5. What department of the hospital does Nadine work in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political event captivates Eric’s wife during her first week in New York?

2. What is Nadine Osnac’s relationship with her parents like, at the beginning of the chapter titled “Water Child”?

3. What is the significance of Ka’s name?

4. What is the crisis Ka Bienaimé is facing at the beginning of The Dew Breaker, and how does the crisis resolve?

5. How do Ka and her family react to the possibility that a wanted Haitian criminal might be in the church?

6. How does Ka end the conversation with her mother?

7. What is Nadine’s relationship with her co-workers like?

8. What does Eric mean to Nadine now?

9. What is Ka’s father’s objection to the sculpture?

10. How did Eric and his wife twist the carnival tradition related to married people?

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