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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. How old was Ka when she started studying art?
(a) 14.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 22.
2. How does the narrator says that Anne feels about having stopped having epileptic seizures?
(a) Forgiven.
(b) Resurrected.
(c) Redeemed.
(d) Free.
3. What does Anne say is the only part of the drive around the neighborhood Ka seems to enjoy?
(a) Seeing people in the streets.
(b) Getting home for a big dinner.
(c) Admiring the lights.
(d) Criticizing the houses.
4. What was Anne’s family’s Christmas tradition?
(a) To cover their house in lights.
(b) To put up a few tasteful lights.
(c) Not to put up lights.
(d) To let their neighbors cover their house in lights.
5. Where does Eric work at night?
(a) City Hall.
(b) King’s County Hospital.
(c) The Rendez Vous night club.
(d) Medgar Evers College.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Eric notices his wife does at 5:11 p.m. while they are out in Brooklyn?
2. How does Gabrielle Fonteneau react when Ka tells her that she does not have the sculpture?
3. Where is Fonteneau visiting her parents, that Ka is bringing her the sculpture?
4. How old is Ka’s father?
5. Where have Anne and her husband gone to get Ka for this Christmas mass?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Nadine’s call with her parents go?
2. What do Eric and his wife do when they go out on the weekend?
3. What is Nadine’s relationship with her co-workers like?
4. How does Ka end the conversation with her mother?
5. What emergency is Nadine called in to resolve in Ms. Hinds’ room?
6. What is Ka’s father’s objection to the sculpture?
7. How have Anne and her husband camouflaged their old life in Haiti, now that they are in New York?
8. How is the ending of "Water Child" chapter similar to themes in The Book of the Dead?
9. What is the crisis Ka Bienaimé is facing at the beginning of The Dew Breaker, and how does the crisis resolve?
10. What causes Nadine to call her parents?
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