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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. Who captured him after he left the Union army?

3. Where does the man on the horse say Judy lives?

4. What does Denver say she drank from Sethe's nipple?

5. Why did Paul D leave the Union army?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

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

7. In chapter twenty-two what do you think Beloved's story is about?

8. Why do you think Sixo yells out "Seven-O, Seven-O"?

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

10. What does the black statue outside the Bodwin's signify?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the connotations of the word "nigger"?

1) What is its original meaning and what has it come to mean?

2) Why is it considered so wrong to use it now?

3) Do you think the word has become too powerful?

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

In this novel, Morrison uses the stream of consciousness technique twice, once with Sethe and in the next chapter with Denver.

1) How do you think stream of consciousness works to express a character's thoughts?

2) Why do you think Morrison uses stream of consciousness with these two characters?

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