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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 is Sethe telling Paul D at the beginning of this chapter?

2. Whose story does the novel turn back to in chapter 15?

3. What kind of pies does Sethe make?

4. What does Sethe say that trying to kill her children prevented from happening?

5. What does Beloved remember a woman doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Sethe's sons leave to fight in the Civil War?

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

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

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

7. Is Paul D in denial that it is Sethe in the photograph?

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

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

10. In chapter twenty-two what do you think Beloved's story is about?

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

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?

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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