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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. Where does Paul sleep at first?

2. How do the guards wake the men up in the Georgia prison?

3. What does Denver ask Beloved after Beloved has pulled out her tooth?

4. What does Denver ask Paul D?

5. What does Beloved say it is like where she comes from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a Sweet Home Man?

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

4. Why do you think Sethe's scar disgusts Paul D so much?

5. Why do you think Paul D says it is a bad idea for an ex-slave to love his children so much?

6. What do you think Baby Suggs meant by giving up the war?

7. Why do you think Denver is so jealous of Paul D's presence?

8. Is Beloved falling apart like she says?

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

10. In what way does the seventh chapter show the horrors of slavery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Paul D's time in prison in Georgia. What do you think conditions were like? How would you have coped in similar conditions?

Essay Topic 2

Describe conditions in the Georgian prison camp. Why were there just slaves in the prison? What is the significance that the guards asked for sexual favors?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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