Beloved Study questions

For a quiz please be prepared to answer either question 4 or question 6

1. What does the tobacco tin in Paul D.’s chest represent?
2. Is Beloved a ghost?  How does the novel play with the tension between the natural and the supernatural?
3. What is “rememory” in Beloved?  Focusing on a specific character or event in the novel explain how rememory can be understood in relation to memory and/or to Hirsch’s concept of “post-memory.”
4. Pick a motif (for example trees, nature, color) and discuss its significance in the novel. 
5. Compare and contrast one aspect of this novel (use of stream of consciousness, imagery, chronology, representation of objects, the use of names) with Foer’s Everything is Illuminated.
6. Morrison said in an interview: "My books are always questions for me.”  What question do you think Beloved is asking or answering? http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/01/toni-morrison 
7. Who are the “Sixty Million and more” to whom the novel is dedicated?  What is the significance of that dedication?
8. What is the significance of the phrase “Sweet Home men?”
9. Discuss the opening and closing paragraphs of the novel in relation to one another.