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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 the narrator characterize Eric’s declarations of love to his wife after she comes home with him?

2. What sentence was passed on Constant when he was tried in Haiti in absentia?

3. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?

4. What do Dany and Michel purchase, to make Eric’s wife more at home?

5. What do Nadine’s parents ask her to do, in their letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ka’s mother answer when Ka asks her how she can love him?

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

3. What is the occasion that Eric’s wife coming to New York?

4. In how many ways does the number seven resonate for Eric at the start of the second chapter, titled “Seven”?

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

6. How does the narrator characterize Anne’s religiosity?

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

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

9. Why are the 60 seconds at midnight during the Christmas mass Anne’s favorite minute of the year?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Dew Breaker does not end in confrontation or justice—Does the book propose terms by which justice might be accomplished? Are there characters in the book who accomplish justice in their way? What would it take for these characters to get justice? What would it take for you, as the reader, to feel the book led to some kind of closure?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate your own reading of The Dew Breaker—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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