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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 Freda say she would introduce herself if she could?
2. Who are the people Aline wants to write about?
3. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?
4. What does Denise Auguste bring Dany and his aunt?
5. What is the reality of Michel’s father’s whereabouts?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Michel’s father, and who is Romain’s?
2. What is the significance of the title of the "Monkey Tails" chapter?
3. Why does Claude say that he is the luckiest man in the world?
4. How does Danticat characterize the events in the streets of Port-au-Prince?
5. Why did Freda emigrate from Haiti to the U.S.?
6. What are the three deaths Freda’s mother says all people have?
7. Who is the main character of the "The Funeral Singer" chapter, and where is it set?
8. What is the action that takes place at Monsieur Christophe’s water station during the rioting?
9. What does Beatrice say appeals to hear about making wedding dresses?
10. Why does the main character of "Night Talkers" get three pieces of cloth to keep with him the rest of his life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Make a graphic representation of the themes that appear in the various stories, and trace their appearance from story to story. Explain how tightly these stories are tied thematically as well as in terms of details like characters’ relationships and places.
Essay Topic 2
What is the role of love in The Dew Breaker? Who loves, and what kinds of relationships or actions are called love? What are the other kinds of love, and what do casual or other kinds of relationships do for the people who have them? What is the relationship between trauma and love? Does love heal it? Is love merely a refuge? Or is love just a way to recycle trauma by making another person complicit in it?
Essay Topic 3
In Danticat’s novel, speaking and writing - and being silenced - is a thematic element through all of the stories. What power does Danticat attribute to the act of speaking? What are the limits of that power? What causes people to not be able to speak? What are the strengths and the weaknesses she attributes to being silent or silenced?
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