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

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

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

4. How old was Ka when she started studying art?

5. What are Nadine’s parents delighted to report having seen outside their house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Ka and her family react to the possibility that a wanted Haitian criminal might be in the church?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Nadine’s call with her parents go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about her, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of The Dew Breaker. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 3

When is The Dew Breaker most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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