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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beloved do when Denver asks why she didn't cry?
(a) She cries
(b) She slaps Denver across the cheek
(c) She chokes
(d) She laughs

2. What did Denver used to hide from?
(a) Her mother's nagging
(b) Her brother's fear
(c) Her stepfather's abuse
(d) Her slave owner's wrath

3. Whose face is that Beloved thinks she has lost?
(a) Baby Suggs's
(b) Denver's
(c) Beloved's
(d) Sethe's

4. What does Sethe do as soon as she sees the woman?
(a) She faints
(b) She vomits
(c) She runs to the outhouse
(d) She screams

5. What does Sethe say that trying to kill her children prevented from happening?
(a) Her children having to go back to Sweet Home
(b) Her children having to see a white face
(c) Her children's souls from dying.
(d) Her children being raped

Short Answer Questions

1. What two characters does Beloved have separate conversations with in this chapter?

2. What does Beloved remember a woman doing?

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

4. How do the guards wake the men up in the Georgia prison?

5. How far does Paul D say that Sixo would walk to meet a woman?

(see the answer key)

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