Beloved: Part 1

All of the following are reasons Baby Suggs has taken to color, except:

• she's depressed over losing her children and grandchildren

• she resents the reaction of the community to her feast and daughter-in-law

• she tries to find something that is free from pain

• she is trying to recreate some of the lush colors, like carmine, that she remembers from a more innocent childhood

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How much did it cost Sethe to pay for her baby's tombstone inscription?

• five dollars

• the skin off her back

• ten minutes of being sexually violated

• the grave maker, a friend of Halle, did it for free

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All of the following are reasons why Sweet Home is an ironic name, except:

• its beautiful trees also were used to hang men

• ts "teacher" taught a doctrine of hatred

• it's where Sethe's nurturing mother was slain

• it's where Sethe struggled against mossy teeth

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Besides her back, what physical quality of Sethe was Schoolteacher's influence said to alter?

• her hair

• her eyes

• her nose

• her hands

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All of the following are qualities Amy Denver and Sethe share, except:

• both have been forcibly enslaved at some point

• both have undergone physical changes from their working conditions

• both are questing after something

• both lost their mothers sometime in their teenage years

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What are Denver's two recent secrets (about the time in the story Paul D. moved in)?

• she has been learning to read, and she has stolen perfume

• her bower in the forest, and her close ties to the ghost

• her hatred of Paul D., and her reading lessons

• her wish to make Beloved her living playmate, and her reading lessons

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What are the main differences between a memory and a rememory?

• rememories happen more than once

• rememories can be shared by another

• rememories are not always under your control

• Both a and b

• Both b and c

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All of these initial descriptions about Beloved echoed the process of birth or some facet of infancy, except:

• the tiny delicacy of her hands

• the newness of her skin

• the lack of strength in her neck

• the breaking of Sethe's water

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What's the biblical significance of Sethe's name?

• it means covenant, a compact of faith between man and G-d

• it means appointed, as Seth was the appointed son to replace the slain Abel

• it means vengeance, as the Prophet Seth rained down the twelve Plagues on the Egyptians

• it means forgiveness, as the Old Testament G-d was a merciful G-d

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Why did Sethe's mother strike Sethe?

• Sethe eyed one of the white slaveowners flirtatiously

• Sethe refused to engage in the juba dances

• Sethe resisted one of the slave owners who forced her mother to work too hard

• Sethe asked her mother to give her a mark similar to mother's

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