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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 do Nadine’s parents ask her to do, in their letter?
(a) Send money.
(b) Come home.
(c) Call them.
(d) Write them back.

2. What do Dany and Michel purchase, to make Eric’s wife more at home?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Furniture.
(c) Curtains.
(d) Robes.

3. What country does The Book of the Dead come from?
(a) Greece.
(b) Persia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Germany.

4. How much weight has Anne’s husband lost since moving to the U.S.?
(a) 60 pounds.
(b) 40 pounds.
(c) 80 pounds.
(d) 20 pounds.

5. What has Eric’s wife brought to the U.S. that does not make it through customs?
(a) Toiletries.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Books.
(d) Fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eric work at night?

2. What is Gabrielle Fonteneau’s profession?

3. What does Eric notices his wife does at 5:11 p.m. while they are out in Brooklyn?

4. What caused Ka’s father to lose his teeth?

5. What had Constant’s role been in Haiti, before he moved to the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Eric mean to Nadine now?

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

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

8. What does Eric’s wife do while he is at work?

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

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

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