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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 Lina write when she is back at the farm?

2. What was Sorrow given before her father died?

3. What does Rebekka spend most of her time doing when Florens returns?

4. What makes the blacksmith bleed when Florens fights with him?

5. Why does Florens say her writing is pointless?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the farm after Jacob dies?/

2. Why is Sorrow brought to the Vaark farm?

3. What is unique about how Florens writes what she chooses to write about?

4. What does Rebekka spend much of her time doing after she is healed, and why is this strange?

5. What does the blacksmith say when he comes to Rebekka's sick bed?

6. Why did Minha Mae not like when Florens wore shoes?

7. How does Sorrow act after her child is born?

8. How does Florens describe Rebekka after she recovers?

9. How does Rebekka change in her treatment of Willard and Scully after Jacob dies?

10. Why does Florens feel an urgency to write?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the themes of slavery and freedom interconnect and move this plot along?

Essay Topic 2

Compassion and empathy is a theme present in a number of places in the plot. What are some of the best examples of this theme, and how did the presence of this theme affect the outcome of this book?

Essay Topic 3

Toni Morrison presents the idea that there are two sides to every man. Choose three of the characters from the book and write about their dual natures and how this duality affected the characters around them.

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