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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?
(a) Sheep
(b) Laughter
(c) A swirling wind
(d) Strange voices

2. Why don't the party goers like Baby Suggs?
(a) She sucked up to white folk
(b) She is an informer
(c) Because she has an easy life by their standards
(d) She murdered her children

3. Why does Mrs. Garner laugh at Sethe?
(a) She falls pregnant
(b) She falls and breaks her leg
(c) Because she asks if she can have a wedding
(d) She asks if she can have a holiday

4. What happens as Denver tells the story of her birth?
(a) Beloved faints
(b) It comes alive before her eyes
(c) Beloved falls into a trance
(d) Her mother begins to scream

5. Why is Sethe angry with Paul D?
(a) Because he has cast out the ghost
(b) Because he was disppointing in bed
(c) Because he has no money
(d) Because he does not like her scar

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Baby Suggs do for a living when Sethe arrived at 124?

2. What does Paul D wonder aloud?

3. Where do the guards lock Paul D and the other men at night?

4. What does Denver say she saw holding Sethe?

5. Why did the perfume bottle break?

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