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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the guards wake the men up in the Georgia prison?
(a) By shouting in their ears
(b) By pushing over the boxes
(c) By hitting them over the head
(d) To the sound of rifles

3. Who owned Sweet Home?
(a) Baby Suggs
(b) The Garners
(c) The Fords
(d) Denver

4. Why does Mrs. Garner laugh at Sethe?
(a) Because she asks if she can have a wedding
(b) She asks if she can have a holiday
(c) She falls and breaks her leg
(d) She falls pregnant

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

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

7. Why is Sethe angry with Paul D?
(a) Because he does not like her scar
(b) Because he has cast out the ghost
(c) Because he has no money
(d) Because he was disppointing in bed

8. Who does Sethe think about after she has sex with Paul D?
(a) Halle
(b) Mr. Garner
(c) Sixo
(d) Denver

9. Who does Denver think Beloved is?
(a) A prophet
(b) Baby Suggs
(c) Her aunt
(d) Her dead sister

10. What does Denver decide not to tell her mother?
(a) Beloved is a ghost
(b) Beloved is trying to kill Paul
(c) Beloved's visits to Paul D in the coldhouse
(d) Beloved is a murderer

11. Why was Paul D imprisoned?
(a) For killing cattle
(b) For trying to kill a man called Brandyman
(c) For having sex with a white woman
(d) For swearing at his slave owner

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person Beloved wants to give her attention to?

2. What does Denver ask Beloved after Beloved has pulled out her tooth?

3. Where did Halle and Sethe used to have sex after they were married?

4. What did Halle smear on his face?

5. Where does Paul sleep after when he is tired of sleeping on a chair?

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