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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Anne’s younger brother die?
2. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?
3. How frequently has Eric called Nadine since they split up?
4. In the Carnival tradition, who is a married couple supposed to find, to ask the person to marry them?
5. How tall is the sculpture Ka made of her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Nadine Osnac’s relationship with her parents like, at the beginning of the chapter titled “Water Child”?
2. How is the ending of "Water Child" chapter similar to themes in The Book of the Dead?
3. What is Anne’s family’s Christmas routine like?
4. What unlikely story is the main character of the "The Book of Miracles" chapter trying to get her family to believe?
5. How does Ka end the conversation with her mother?
6. How does the narrator characterize Anne’s religiosity?
7. What is Ka’s father’s objection to the sculpture?
8. What does Eric mean to Nadine now?
9. What causes Nadine to call her parents?
10. What is the significance of Ka’s name?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify the most important plot points in The Dew Breaker. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 2
More than one of the characters in The Dew Breaker take on the role of mourners for the others. What service do these characters provide, and is there a sense in which the book itself is taking on the role of expressing grief for others? For whom? Over what?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for The Dew Breaker? What is the ideal reader for The Dew Breaker likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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