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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. What does Golden Gray cover the woman's body with?
2. Why does Dorcas tell Joe she wants to break up with him?
3. Where does Vera Louise go until she has the baby?
4. What does Joe hear in the woods after fishing?
5. What does Vera Louise do with True Belle's wages?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is your understanding of the relationship between Joe, Violet, and Felice in Chapters Nine and Ten?
2. In Chapter Eight, what does Dorcas notice about Joe?
3. In Chapter Seven, how does Henry say you can always find Wild?
4. Describe the way True Belle's grandchildren are living when she comes to care for them in Chapter Six.
5. Describe the initial meeting between Golden Gray and his father in Chapter Seven.
6. Describe what Joe and Violet do together at night in Chapter 10.
7. What sorts of things to Joe and Violet do together once their relationship is renewed?
8. Describe what Violet sees when she first spots Felice in Chapter Nine.
9. What happens to the cotton plantation thirteen years after Golden Gray confronts his father?
10. In Chapter Seven, why does Joe think Wild is his own mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Morrison includes the confrontation between Golden Gray and his father? What purpose does the scene serve? Do you think the reader has just as thorough an understanding of the characters without this description of events?
Essay Topic 2
The mothers of Violet, Joe, and Dorcas die tragically, abandon their children, or kill themselves. Why do you think Morrison includes this similarity between these three characters? What does the loss of one's mother symbolize? Do you think it effectively unites the characters, or does it pull them apart?
Essay Topic 3
How is racism explored and conveyed in Morrison's work? Why do you think Morrison writes about it in this way?
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