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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Denver have a secret spot where she can hide?
(a) By the river
(b) In the woods
(c) In the attic
(d) In the garden

3. How long is it since Paul D and Sethe last saw each other?
(a) 5 years
(b) 20 years
(c) 18 years
(d) 2 years

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

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

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

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

8. 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

9. What does Sethe think happened to Beloved?
(a) She ran away from her owner
(b) She was imprisoned
(c) She was impregnated by a white man
(d) She was locked up by a white man

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

11. Who gave Denver her perfume?
(a) Paul D
(b) Baby Suggs
(c) Miss Bodwin
(d) Sethe

12. Who do Sethe and Paul meet on the road when they are heading back to 124?
(a) Denver
(b) Halle
(c) Beloved
(d) Baby Suggs

13. What does Sethe feed outside the back of her workplace?
(a) Cats
(b) Children
(c) Birds
(d) Dogs

14. In what way does Sethe say Halle mistreated her?
(a) He never gave her money.
(b) He did not show up to run away with her.
(c) He beat her.
(d) He mentally tortured her.

15. What does Sethe remember Baby Suggs telling her?
(a) To give up the war
(b) To get married
(c) To move back to her homeland
(d) To have children

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Baby Suggs' sons died?

2. What is the name of Sethe's daughter?

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

4. Where was Paul D imprisoned?

5. What does Paul D think Beloved is doing to him?

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