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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 Denver say she saw holding Sethe?

2. Where did Baby Suggs go to preach?

3. Where does Paul D have sex with Beloved?

4. Why are Denver and Sethe so surprised that the woman is called Beloved?

5. How many of Baby Suggs' sons ran away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Paul D keeps on saying "red heart"?

2. Why do you think the town is so angry at Sethe?

3. Why was Sethe so angry about the boys taking her milk?

4. Why is it significant that Beloved pulls out a tooth?

5. Why does Denver deny that she saw Beloved pick up a chair?

6. Why do you think Paul D is ready to accept the presence of a ghost in the house?

7. Why does Paul call his tobacco tin his heart?

8. Why do think Paul thinks that Beloved is moving him around the house?

9. Why does Amy consider her self as low in the social scale as slaves when she is white?

10. In the seventh chapter, Beloved chokes on a raisin, and again it is Denver who takes her upstairs. Why do you think at this point Denver is still so attentive towards Beloved's needs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book, Sethe tried to kill her children and succeeded in killing one. How do you think it has affected them? Can they remember?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the connotations of the word "nigger"?

1) What is its original meaning and what has it come to mean?

2) Why is it considered so wrong to use it now?

3) Do you think the word has become too powerful?

Essay Topic 3

A ghost haunts 124. What do you think the ghost symbolizes? Why do you think they are so ready to believe in a ghost?

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