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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. Who is the one who starts the others telling stories about their personal lives?

2. How does Beatrice think the prison guard keeps finding her?

3. Where does Beatrice Saint Fort live?

4. Whose hand has the dictator transferred power to, now that he is leaving?

5. How does Beatrice indicate the residents of the houses on her block?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the title of the "Monkey Tails" chapter?

2. What does the main character of "Night Talkers" do is his dream?

3. Who is the main character of the "Monkey Tails" chapter, and where is it set?

4. Why does Dany think that Claude is lucky?

5. What is the action that takes place at Monsieur Christophe’s water station during the rioting?

6. How does Danticat characterize the events in the streets of Port-au-Prince?

7. What are the three deaths Freda’s mother says all people have?

8. Who are Beatrice Saint Ford and Aline Cajuste?

9. How does the narrator characterize Dany’s relationship with Denise Auguste?

10. Why does Claude say that he is the luckiest man in the world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do superstition and religion play in The Dew Breaker? Who is moved by them, and how are they moved? Who is not moved by them, and how does the immunity, such as it is, serve as either an advantage or disadvantage? What can you say about Danticat’s approach to superstition and religion in The Dew Breaker?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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