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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives to take Sethe back to Sweethome?
(a) The sherriff and his cousin
(b) The sherriff, the schoolteacher, and the schoolteacher's nephew
(c) The sherriff and his wife
(d) Mr and Mrs Garner

2. What did Baby Suggs do for a living when Sethe arrived at 124?
(a) She was a preacher
(b) She played golf
(c) She was a house servant
(d) She was a cook

3. What did Halle smear on his face?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Lard
(c) Butter
(d) Horse dung

4. What is the newspaper article about?
(a) Sethe escaping from Sweet Home
(b) Sethe saving a drowning dog
(c) Sethe murdering her child
(d) Sethe getting married

5. What does Sethe tell Paul in the end?
(a) That she couldn't afford to keep her babies
(b) That she loved her babies too much to allow them to live in such a world
(c) That she tried to take her babies somewhere safe
(d) That she was afraid the white people would kill her babies

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Denver miss her baby sister?

2. What happened to Sethe's mother?

3. Where does Paul sleep after when he is tired of sleeping on a chair?

4. How does Sethe try to kill Denver?

5. Why did the perfume bottle break?

(see the answer key)

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