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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sethe remember Howard?
(a) He had a beaming smile.
(b) He had a huge nose.
(c) He had big cow like eyes.
(d) He had an oddly shaped head.

2. How do the guards wake the men up in the Georgia prison?
(a) By pushing over the boxes
(b) By hitting them over the head
(c) To the sound of rifles
(d) By shouting in their ears

3. Where is the woman sitting when Sethe, Denver and Paul D arrive back from the carnival?
(a) On the porch
(b) On the grass
(c) On Sethe's bed
(d) On a stump outside the house

4. How many of Baby Suggs' sons ran away?
(a) Five
(b) Ten
(c) Four
(d) Eight

5. How does Sethe react to Denver asking Paul D how long he is going to stay?
(a) She cries
(b) She screams
(c) She is offended
(d) She laughs

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the man say he would spend chiseling Sethe's daughters gravestone until he would charge for it?

2. Who does Baby Suggs claim is the only bad luck in the world?

3. What did the schoolteacher tell Mr. Garner's slaves?

4. Why does Mrs. Garner laugh at Sethe for wanting a wedding?

5. What did Baby Suggs teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a Sweet Home Man?

2. How is it significant that Baby Suggs preached in churches regardless of domination?

3. Do you think it is important that Sethe's scar resembles a tree?

4. Why do you think Sethe's scar disgusts Paul D so much?

5. How is it significant that Denver's story comes alive?

6. Why do you think the town is so angry at Sethe?

7. Why do you think Denver is so jealous of Paul D's presence?

8. What do you think Baby Suggs meant by giving up the war?

9. In what way does the seventh chapter show the horrors of slavery?

10. Why does Amy consider her self as low in the social scale as slaves when she is white?

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