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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 Denver initially go for help?

2. What does Sethe tell Beloved she did with the men without skin?

3. What happened to Beloved when Sethe became thinner?

4. Who does Denver think Beloved is?

5. What does Stamp Paid show Paul D?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Paul D mention that Sethe has two legs?

2. What dose Sethe mean when she says "Me, me"?

3. Why do you think Denver does not want to hear Sethe's stories?

4. Why does Morrison use stream of consciousness in this chapter to express Sethe's thoughts?

5. Why do you think think that the slaves take names such as Baby Suggs?

6. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

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

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

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

10. Why do the other ex-slaves hate Baby Suggs so much?

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

In the book, Baby Suggs preached ex-slaves to like themselves again. What role did religion play in abolition of slavery? Was Christianity the African American's native religion? If not, why did they embrace it so fully?

Essay Topic 3

Sethe trying to kill her children was not unusual during this period. Discuss why black mothers would want to kill their children. If their lives were that bad, why were her sons so fearful of Sethe? Were these women not in their right minds at the time?

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