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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?
(a) Lighten living hearts.
(b) Purge a sin.
(c) Cleanse a guilty conscience.
(d) Repair an injury.

2. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?
(a) In her living room.
(b) In the subway.
(c) In the hospital cafeteria.
(d) In her bed.

3. Where have Anne and her husband gone to get Ka for this Christmas mass?
(a) Rockland county.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) Westchester county.
(d) Ulster county.

4. What quality does mistletoe have, according to Anne?
(a) Reconciliatory.
(b) Divinatory.
(c) Amorous.
(d) Prophetic.

5. How does Eric look at his wife on the bus ride back home?
(a) As if he cannot see her enough.
(b) As if he does not recognize her.
(c) As if he were just seeing her for the first time.
(d) As if he is trying to see her for the first time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How frequently has Eric called Nadine since they split up?

2. What procedure has Ms. Hinds had performed in the hospital?

3. What aspect of the maid’s personality reminds Ka of her mother?

4. How old is Ka’s father?

5. How does Ka explain to Gabrielle Fonteneau that she does not have the sculpture?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the 60 seconds at midnight during the Christmas mass Anne’s favorite minute of the year?

2. What is Anne’s family’s Christmas routine like?

3. How does Ka end the conversation with her mother?

4. What is the crisis Ka Bienaimé is facing at the beginning of The Dew Breaker, and how does the crisis resolve?

5. How does Ka’s mother answer when Ka asks her how she can love him?

6. What is Nadine’s relationship with her co-workers like?

7. What do Eric and his wife do when they go out on the weekend?

8. How have Anne and her husband camouflaged their old life in Haiti, now that they are in New York?

9. What is Eric’s relationship with his roommates like?

10. How is the ending of "Water Child" chapter similar to themes in The Book of the Dead?

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