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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. Who was the woman that Beloved saw putting leaves in a basket?

2. Where does Paul D work?

3. What is the newspaper article about?

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

5. What is Beloved doing when the rain falls?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Morrison say loneliness can be dealt with by rocking in a fetal position?

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

3. What does Sethe walking around in circles symbolize?

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

5. Why do Sethe and Denver need Beloved to be theirs?

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

7. Why do you think Sixo yells out "Seven-O, Seven-O"?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book, Sethe tried to kill her children and succeeded in killing one. How do you think it has affected them? Can they remember?

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

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?

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