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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 Beatrice think the prison guard keeps finding her?
2. How old was Claude when he killed his father?
3. Where does Beatrice Saint Fort live?
4. What does Dany tell his aunt about in his dream?
5. Who is the one who starts the others telling stories about their personal lives?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Claude say that he is the luckiest man in the world?
2. Who is the main character of the "Monkey Tails" chapter, and where is it set?
3. What does Aline find when she investigates the house Beatrice called the Haitian prison guard’s house?
4. What does Freda say her father wished would happen on New Year’s Eve, in the years before he was arrested?
5. What kind of insight does Aline give us into the authorial labor of writing the novel in which Aline herself appears?
6. What does Beatrice ultimately tell us about the character of Ka’s father?
7. How does Danticat characterize the events in the streets of Port-au-Prince?
8. Who are Beatrice Saint Ford and Aline Cajuste?
9. Under what conditions did Freda’s father disappear?
10. Why does Michel say he understood things he should have been too young to understand?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Does The Dew Breaker show us acts of transformation, a kind of ritual change of form, in which one emotion or complex of emotions turns into another emotion, or makes a new composition of emotions? What does it take, to move someone into a new life within their life? How do we know it is new life? How do the other characters know? Is the book itself the only way the incomplete things in the characters’ lives are completed?
Essay Topic 2
When is The Dew Breaker most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
What topics would you like to research further, after reading The Dew Breaker. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on The Dew Breaker.
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