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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. What does Aline say she learned was useful in her education?
2. What group does Michel say he joined?
3. What condition does Freda say her father was in when he came back after time in prison?
4. What does Dany tell his aunt about in his dream?
5. Where is Michel telling the story of this time in Haiti?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the title of the "Monkey Tails" chapter?
2. What does Aline find when she investigates the house Beatrice called the Haitian prison guard’s house?
3. Whose point of view is the "Night Talkers" chapter written from, and where is it set?
4. What does Freda say her father wished would happen on New Year’s Eve, in the years before he was arrested?
5. What is the significance of the song Brother Timonie?
6. Under what conditions did Freda’s father disappear?
7. What does Beatrice say appeals to hear about making wedding dresses?
8. What are the three deaths Freda’s mother says all people have?
9. Why does Claude say that he is the luckiest man in the world?
10. What kind of insight does Aline give us into the authorial labor of writing the novel in which Aline herself appears?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
The Dew Breaker does not end in confrontation or justice—Does the book propose terms by which justice might be accomplished? Are there characters in the book who accomplish justice in their way? What would it take for these characters to get justice? What would it take for you, as the reader, to feel the book led to some kind of closure?
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