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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. In what style is this chapter written?

2. Who was the woman that Beloved saw putting leaves in a basket?

3. What does Stamp Paid show Paul D?

4. What does Beloved say came to mix the men with the women?

5. What does Paul D wonder aloud?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the diamonds signify in the water?

2. What do you think the single, unbroken paragraph in chapter twenty signifies?

3. What does Denver stepping out of the house signify?

4. What does Paul D and Paid Stamp's gallow humor signify?

5. What does the red ribbon Stamp carries around symbolize?

6. How does this chapter move around the thoughts of the three women?

7. Why do you think Halle smears butter over his face?

8. Why does Stamp ask about a woman he does not know?

9. Why do you think Sixo yells out "Seven-O, Seven-O"?

10. Why does Morrison say loneliness can be dealt with by rocking in a fetal position?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul D, Sethe, and Denver spend a day at the carnival set aside for black people. They enjoy it because they get to laugh at white people.

1) What would you think of white people if you were a black person during this time? Would you hide your feelings?

2) Think about if you were white. How difficult would it be to form a decent opinion of black people when society went out of its way to dehumanize them? Do you think white people's upbringings conditioned them to treat black people so badly?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Take one white character and one black character and compare their backgrounds and character goals. How does Morrison represent white characters? How does she represent the black characters? Do you think they are both accurate depictions?

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