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

2. Where does Eric take his wife on the bus?

3. How does Gabrielle Fonteneau react when Ka tells her that she does not have the sculpture?

4. Where does Eric work at night?

5. What was Anne’s family’s Christmas tradition?

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

3. What is Ka’s father’s objection to the sculpture?

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

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

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

7. What political event captivates Eric’s wife during her first week in New York?

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

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

10. What causes Nadine to call her parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of The Dew Breaker. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

Make a graphic representation of the themes that appear in the various stories, and trace their appearance from story to story. Explain how tightly these stories are tied thematically as well as in terms of details like characters’ relationships and places.

Essay Topic 3

Is The Dew Breaker a novel or a collection of interconnected short stories? How would you define either genre, and where do you see evidence that The Dew Breaker satisfies that definition? How do you account for contrary evidence in the book’s structure?

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