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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Paul D have sex with Beloved?
(a) In the storehouse
(b) In the kitchen
(c) In the coldhouse
(d) In baby Suggs' bed

4. Why did the perfume bottle break?
(a) Denver threw it against a tree
(b) Sete stood on it
(c) Denver dropped it.
(d) Because the perfume froze

5. Where does the woman come out from?
(a) The woods
(b) A hole in the sky
(c) The ground
(d) The water

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Paul D imprisoned?

2. What does Sethe decide about Beloved?

3. Where does Paul sleep at first?

4. What does Sethe do as soon as she sees the woman?

5. What does Beloved do while sitting in the kitchen with Denver?

(see the answer key)

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