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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Baby Suggs claim is the only bad luck in the world?
(a) White people
(b) Jewish people
(c) Arab people
(d) Black people

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

5. What happened to Sethe's mother?
(a) She was hung
(b) She was imprisoned
(c) She ran away back to her homeland
(d) She married a slave owner

6. What does Paul D manage to do while he is at the carnival?
(a) Find a job
(b) Secure a loan
(c) Steal some money
(d) Make a few contacts for possible jobs

7. How far does Paul D say that Sixo would walk to meet a woman?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 34 miles
(c) 100 miles
(d) 5 miles

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

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

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

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

12. What happen after Paul D has spent 86 days at the camp?
(a) It begins to rain
(b) He falls deathly ill
(c) It beins to snow
(d) He kills one of the guards

13. 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

14. What does Beloved do when Denver asks why she didn't cry?
(a) She laughs
(b) She chokes
(c) She slaps Denver across the cheek
(d) She cries

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 tease.
(c) She has no one to talk to.
(d) She has no one to play with.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the woman come out from?

2. What does Sethe remember Baby Suggs telling her?

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

4. What did Baby Suggs teach?

5. Where does Paul D take Sethe and Denver?

(see the answer keys)

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