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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beloved do while sitting in the kitchen with Denver?
(a) She pulls out a tooth
(b) She removes her hair
(c) She takes out an eye
(d) She pulls off a finger nail

2. Where did Baby Suggs go to preach?
(a) A barn
(b) A church
(c) A friend's house
(d) A clearing

3. How many of Baby Suggs' sons died?
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Nine
(d) Eight

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

5. Where does Paul D sleep after he is tired of sleeping in Baby Suggs' bed?
(a) In the kitchen
(b) In the storehouse
(c) In the coldhouse
(d) In the bath tub

6. Why did Halle break down?
(a) He saw Sethe being beaten.
(b) He saw Sethe being raped in the barn.
(c) He saw Sethe caressing a white boy.
(d) He saw Sethe trying to kill their children.

7. Where does Paul sleep after when he is tired of sleeping on a chair?
(a) On the floor
(b) On the sofa
(c) In Baby Suggs bed
(d) In the bath tub

8. What is the name of Sethe's dog?
(a) Sinatra
(b) Here Boy
(c) Badger
(d) Abe

9. What does Paul D decide to tell Sethe?
(a) That he wants to marry her
(b) That he doen't want to get a job
(c) That he want to leave her
(d) That he has been having sex with Beloved

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

11. Where is the woman sitting when Sethe, Denver and Paul D arrive back from the carnival?
(a) On the grass
(b) On the porch
(c) On Sethe's bed
(d) On a stump outside the house

12. What did the Garners pride themselves in doing?
(a) Making their slaves into men
(b) Allowing their slaves into town
(c) Paying their slaves
(d) Allowing their slaves to marry

13. Who does Sethe think Beloved hates?
(a) Denver
(b) Her
(c) Baby Suggs
(d) Paul D

14. What does Beloved wonder about herself?
(a) How long she can stay together
(b) If she is really human
(c) If her tooth will grow back
(d) How old she is

15. Why does Denver miss her baby sister?
(a) She took pride in the way people feared her house.
(b) She has no one to play with.
(c) She has no one to tease.
(d) She has no one to talk to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Garner trust about his slaves?

2. What happened to Sethe's mother?

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

4. What did Denver used to play in her hiding place?

5. What does Denver decide not to tell her mother?

(see the answer keys)

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