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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 Denise Auguste respond when Dany thanks her?

2. Why does Beatrice say she enjoyed making wedding dresses?

3. How old was the dictator when he fled?

4. Who is Romain’s father?

5. Where does Freda meet Rézia and Mariselle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Beatrice say appeals to hear about making wedding dresses?

3. How is Aline failing to follow her editor’s advice in the interview?

4. What does Aline find when she investigates the house Beatrice called the Haitian prison guard’s house?

5. What news is the main character of "Night Talkers" bringing with him?

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

7. Who is the main character of the "The Funeral Singer" chapter, and where is it set?

8. Why does the main character of "Night Talkers" get three pieces of cloth to keep with him the rest of his life?

9. Why did Freda emigrate from Haiti to the U.S.?

10. Who are Beatrice Saint Ford and Aline Cajuste?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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