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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 does the man on the horse ask for?

2. Whose body does Stamp say he had to carry out of 124?

3. Who was the woman that Beloved saw putting leaves in a basket?

4. How does Toni Morrison say people can cope with loneliness?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sethe walking around in circles symbolize?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Paul D and Paid Stamp's gallow humor signify?

10. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the historical setting of the novel.

1) What were the rights of the ex-slaves? Were their lives any better? What kind of jobs did they get?

2) Was slavery completely abolished at this time?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Beloved and Denver.

1) What is their relationship with their mother?

2) What is their relationship with Paul D?

3) What is their relationship to each other?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how a black person was seen during the nineteenth century

1) Before the abolition of slavery

2) Immediately after the abolition of slavery.

3) How long has it taken for white people's negative views of black people to change? How much has it changed?

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