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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 arrives at 124 at the beginning of the chapter?

2. What does Denver dream about Sethe?

3. Why does Sethe think she does not have to explain anything to Beloved?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think think that the slaves take names such as Baby Suggs?

2. What does Sethe walking around in circles symbolize?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul D says it is a bad idea for ex-slaves to love their children too much. Discuss this statement, drawing two examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Paul D notices that Beloved desires someone in the house, but knows it is not him. What do you think Paul D's feelings are for Beloved? Does he want to have a sexual relationship with her?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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