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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 Aline characterize Beatrice’s state of mind to her editor?
2. What does Denise Auguste bring Dany and his aunt?
3. What does Beatrice want to do before she starts her interview with Aline?
4. How old was the dictator when he fled?
5. What condition does Freda say her father was in when he came back after time in prison?
Short Essay Questions
1. Under what conditions did Freda’s father disappear?
2. Why does the main character of "Night Talkers" get three pieces of cloth to keep with him the rest of his life?
3. What is the significance of the title of the "Monkey Tails" chapter?
4. What is the action that takes place at Monsieur Christophe’s water station during the rioting?
5. What does Beatrice say is the secret to her coffee?
6. What does Beatrice ultimately tell us about the character of Ka’s father?
7. What does Aline find when she investigates the house Beatrice called the Haitian prison guard’s house?
8. What news is the main character of "Night Talkers" bringing with him?
9. What does the main character of "Night Talkers" do is his dream?
10. How does Danticat characterize the events in the streets of Port-au-Prince?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
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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