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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

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 2

Look at the historical setting of the novel.

1) What were the rights of the ex-slaves? Were their lives any better? What kind of jobs did they get?

2) Was slavery completely abolished at this time?

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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