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Question 1
In the second line of the reading, Denver says, “I saw a white dress holding on to you . . .” Did Denver actually see this? Explain.


Question 2
In response to a question from Denver, Sethe says she doesn’t pray anymore, just talks. What does this comment suggest to the reader about Sethe’s personal history and character?




Question 3
Sethe says that the schoolteacher’s questions tore up Sixo, for all time. What might this mean and how could questions tear a person up?




Question 4
When Denver is describing the dress that she saw holding her mother back, she mentions a “bunch at the back.” Sethe then asks, “A bustle?” Based on context clues, what is a bustle? Write your definition here.




Question 5
Near the end of the reading, Sethe lets out a sigh “like the snuff of a candle flame.” Use context clues to define snuff and write your definition here.

Answer 1

1)

Since that part of the poem is about memories and how they are always alive, then yes. Sethe told Denver that if he ever goes by a place and sees a clear picture of something going on, then he got in someone's rememory. This sentence from the text confirms that - " Someday you be walking down the road and you hear something or see something going on. So clear. And you think it's you thinking it up. A thought picture. But no. It's when you bump into a rememory that belongs to somebody else."

2)

Sethe went though a very terrible event, and maybe she lost her belief in God because she didn't get help from Him. And my guess is that this is might be the reason why she doesn't pray anymore. She likes to think about life and what happened in past, she wants to learn a lesson from something that hurt her one day to be a stronger person.

3)

Well, I assume that she tried to say that words and questions can hurt a person really bad. If something is disturbing you, and someone will ask you questions about it, then you might get upset or start crying just because it is something that hurts you inside very bad.

4)

Bustle is a soft thing that rich women used to put in the back of the dress, just so their body shape would look more curvy and feminine.

5)

Snuff means to extinguish or to blow out, an example would be "a breeze snuffed out the candle".

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