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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) Say she wants to go home.
(b) Look for someone in a crowd.
(c) Check her phone.
(d) Take his hand.

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

3. What had Constant’s role been in Haiti, before he moved to the U.S.?
(a) Prison guard.
(b) Politician.
(c) President’s body guard.
(d) Head of a death squad.

4. What are Nadine’s parents delighted to report having seen outside their house?
(a) A lizard.
(b) A frangipani flower.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A hummingbird.

5. How does the narrator characterize Eric’s declarations of love to his wife after she comes home with him?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Prattle.
(c) Song.
(d) Babble.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eric work at night?

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

3. How does Eric look at his wife on the bus ride back home?

4. Where is Fonteneau visiting her parents, that Ka is bringing her the sculpture?

5. How many microcassettes with Eric’s messages has Nadine added to her altar?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ka and her father explain to Mrs. Fontaneau that the sculpture is gone?

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

3. How have Anne and her husband camouflaged their old life in Haiti, now that they are in New York?

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

5. What causes Nadine to call her parents?

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

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

8. What is Eric’s relationship with his roommates like?

9. What is Anne’s family’s Christmas routine like?

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

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