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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. Where is Anne’s husband’s barber shop?
(a) In an almost all-white community.
(b) In an African community.
(c) In a big neighborhood of mixed races.
(d) In the middle of the Haitian community.

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

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

4. What does Eric give his wife to drink when she arrives?
(a) Water.
(b) Passion fruit juice.
(c) Mango juice.
(d) Papaya juice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Eric start to feel joy in anticipation of seeing his wife again?

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

3. When had Ka declared herself an atheist?

4. How does Ka’s father explain why he had to destroy the sculpture of himself?

5. Why does Ka say that her father destroyed the sculpture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unlikely story is the main character of the "The Book of Miracles" chapter trying to get her family to believe?

2. What emergency is Nadine called in to resolve in Ms. Hinds’ room?

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

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

5. How does Ka’s mother answer when Ka asks her how she can love him?

6. How does Nadine’s call with her parents go?

7. How does the narrator characterize Anne’s religiosity?

8. What do Eric and his wife do when they go out on the weekend?

9. Whose perspective is the "The Book of Miracles" chapter written from, and when is it set?

10. What causes Nadine to call her parents?

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