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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 does Ka say her father reacted when she tried to take his picture?
2. Why does Ka’s father say that he does not deserve to have a statue?
3. How tall is the sculpture Ka made of her father?
4. What department of the hospital does Nadine work in?
5. Where does Anne’s husband go to see Egyptian sculptures?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the crisis Ka Bienaimé is facing at the beginning of The Dew Breaker, and how does the crisis resolve?
2. How do Ka and her family react to the possibility that a wanted Haitian criminal might be in the church?
3. In how many ways does the number seven resonate for Eric at the start of the second chapter, titled “Seven”?
4. What does Eric mean to Nadine now?
5. What is Anne’s family’s Christmas routine like?
6. Why are the 60 seconds at midnight during the Christmas mass Anne’s favorite minute of the year?
7. What is Nadine Osnac’s relationship with her parents like, at the beginning of the chapter titled “Water Child”?
8. How does the narrator characterize Anne’s religiosity?
9. How is the ending of "Water Child" chapter similar to themes in The Book of the Dead?
10. How does Ka’s mother answer when Ka asks her how she can love him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Debate the proposition that the lack of justice in the book creates a longing for justice in the reader that actually brings justice to life more than the book could have done, within itself, by hauling the dew breaker to prison, or getting to the point where he could apologize, or make amends.
Essay Topic 2
Does The Dew Breaker show us acts of transformation, a kind of ritual change of form, in which one emotion or complex of emotions turns into another emotion, or makes a new composition of emotions? What does it take, to move someone into a new life within their life? How do we know it is new life? How do the other characters know? Is the book itself the only way the incomplete things in the characters’ lives are completed?
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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