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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Paul D imprisoned?
(a) Georgia
(b) New York
(c) Kentucky
(d) Virginia

2. Who does Beloved say is the only person she needs to have?
(a) Paul D
(b) Sethe
(c) Denver
(d) Baby Suggs

3. What did Sethe tell Amy her real name was?
(a) Winnie
(b) Lu
(c) Betsy
(d) Suggs

4. What does Beloved ask Denver about?
(a) Paul D
(b) Her hiding place
(c) Her birth
(d) Sethe

5. Why does Sethe remember Howard?
(a) He had an oddly shaped head.
(b) He had a beaming smile.
(c) He had a huge nose.
(d) He had big cow like eyes.

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

7. How many of Baby Suggs' sons ran away?
(a) Five
(b) Eight
(c) Ten
(d) Four

8. Why is Sethe angry at Paul D?
(a) Because she thinks Paul D is lying.
(b) Because he did not tell Sethe about Halle sooner.
(c) Because she needs someone to be angry at.
(d) Because he did not say anything to help Halle.

9. What does Amy make Sethe the morning after the birth?
(a) A pair of shoes
(b) A bracelet
(c) A necklace
(d) Breakfast

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

11. What does Paul notice about Beloved?
(a) She has no toes
(b) That she desires for someone in the house
(c) She does not remember her past
(d) She is a ghost

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

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

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

15. What does the woman say her name is?
(a) Beloved
(b) Blossom
(c) Daisy
(d) Truly

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Paul D sleep after he is tired of sleeping in Baby Suggs' bed?

2. In what way does Sethe say Halle mistreated her?

3. Who does Sethe think about after she has sex with Paul D?

4. What does Denver say she saw holding Sethe?

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

(see the answer keys)

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