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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 does Eric give his wife to drink when she arrives?
2. What does Eric notices his wife does at 5:11 p.m. while they are out in Brooklyn?
3. Where does Nadine live?
4. What does the narrator say Eric’s wife smells like?
5. What procedure has Ms. Hinds had performed in the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Nadine Osnac’s relationship with her parents like, at the beginning of the chapter titled “Water Child”?
2. What is Nadine’s relationship with her co-workers like?
3. How does Ka’s mother answer when Ka asks her how she can love him?
4. What do Eric and his wife do when they go out on the weekend?
5. What emergency is Nadine called in to resolve in Ms. Hinds’ room?
6. What is the sculpture Ka is selling to Gabrielle Fontaneau?
7. How did Eric and his wife twist the carnival tradition related to married people?
8. Whose perspective is the "The Book of Miracles" chapter written from, and when is it set?
9. How is the ending of "Water Child" chapter similar to themes in The Book of the Dead?
10. What is Anne’s family’s Christmas routine like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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