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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. Why does Stamp feel guilty?

2. Who comes back to 124 at the beginning of this chapter?

3. What did Baby Suggs turn the outside kitchen into?

4. Who does Stamp Paid say that Sethe tried to stab?

5. What does Denver say she drank from Sethe's nipple?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Sethe walking around in circles symbolize?

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

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

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

8. What does the fact Stamp hears dead black people signify?

9. What do you think the footprints by the stream mean?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character of Baby Suggs.

1) What is her importance to Sethe?

2) Why do some people not like her?

Essay Topic 2

In the book many character change their names. For example, Baby Suggs changes her name from Janet. Why do you think people changed their names? Is there a difference between the characters that did change their names and the characters that did not?

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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