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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 old is Michel in story told in the "Monkey Tails" chapter?
2. How old does Michel say he feels, in the story he is telling?
3. How old is Freda?
4. How does Beatrice think the prison guard keeps finding her?
5. Why did Claude kill his father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kind of insight does Aline give us into the authorial labor of writing the novel in which Aline herself appears?
2. What does Beatrice say appeals to hear about making wedding dresses?
3. How does Danticat characterize the events in the streets of Port-au-Prince?
4. What does Beatrice ultimately tell us about the character of Ka’s father?
5. How is Aline failing to follow her editor’s advice in the interview?
6. Who is the main character of the "The Funeral Singer" chapter, and where is it set?
7. Why does Claude say that he is the luckiest man in the world?
8. Under what conditions did Freda’s father disappear?
9. What does Aline find when she investigates the house Beatrice called the Haitian prison guard’s house?
10. How does the narrator characterize Dany’s relationship with Denise Auguste?
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
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 3
Is The Dew Breaker a novel or a collection of interconnected short stories? How would you define either genre, and where do you see evidence that The Dew Breaker satisfies that definition? How do you account for contrary evidence in the book’s structure?
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