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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. How does Toni Morrison say people can cope with loneliness?

2. Who does Baby Suggs hope to see?

3. What does Sethe make so she and Beloved can enjoy good times together?

4. Who captured him after he left the Union army?

5. Why did Paul D leave the Union army?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Sethe refuse to clean the blood from her nipple?

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

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

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

7. What does the black statue outside the Bodwin's signify?

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

9. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

10. Why does Stamp Paid show Paul D the article about Sethe?

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

Look at the character of Paul D.

1) What is his background?

2) What do you think his good and bad points are?

3) What do think a similar character would of achieved in today's society?

Essay Topic 3

Sethe is an ex-slave from Kentucky. What problems do you think Sethe faces as a slave here? Was it worse in other places? How do you think it has shaped Sethe as a person?

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