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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 Sethe tell Paul in the end?

2. What does Paul D tell Stamp Paid he does not want to see anymore of?

3. Who comes back to 124 at the beginning of this chapter?

4. Where does Beloved's face occasionally appear?

5. Why does Morrison say Sethe, Denver, and Paul D forget Beloved?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do you think Halle smears butter over his face?

5. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

6. Why does Stamp ask about a woman he does not know?

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

8. Why does Stamp Paid show Paul D the article about Sethe?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe the character of Baby Suggs.

1) What is her importance to Sethe?

2) Why do some people not like her?

Essay Topic 3

Sethe trying to kill her children was not unusual during this period. Discuss why black mothers would want to kill their children. If their lives were that bad, why were her sons so fearful of Sethe? Were these women not in their right minds at the time?

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