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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 many days does Stamp walk up to the house without knocking?

2. Why are Sethe and Beloved trying to gather strength?

3. Why are the people who went to the party so upset?

4. Who does Paul D say he envies?

5. Why does Paul D say Sethe has two legs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Sethe walking around in circles symbolize?

10. Why does Sethe refuse to clean the blood from her nipple?

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

Describe conditions in the Georgian prison camp. Why were there just slaves in the prison? What is the significance that the guards asked for sexual favors?

Essay Topic 3

Paul D, Sethe, and Denver spend a day at the carnival set aside for black people. They enjoy it because they get to laugh at white people.

1) What would you think of white people if you were a black person during this time? Would you hide your feelings?

2) Think about if you were white. How difficult would it be to form a decent opinion of black people when society went out of its way to dehumanize them? Do you think white people's upbringings conditioned them to treat black people so badly?

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