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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Stamp Paid tell Paul D that he saw Sethe take her children into the woodshed?
(a) Because he doesn't think Paul will believe him
(b) Because Paul D keeps denying the photograph is of Sethe
(c) Because Paul is too sensitive
(d) Out of loyalty to Sethe

2. Who does Paul D say he envies?
(a) Beloved
(b) A family of slaves that managed to stay together
(c) Halle
(d) Stamp Paid

3. Where does the man on the horse say Judy lives?
(a) Wood Street
(b) Plank Rd.
(c) Blues Row
(d) Bluestone Rd.

4. Who are the only three people in this chapter?
(a) Beloved, Sethe and Stamp Paid
(b) Beloved, Denver and Sethe
(c) Beloved, Stamp Paid and Paul D
(d) Beloved, Denver and Paul D

5. How does Sethe try to kill Denver?
(a) By dropping her from a great height
(b) By throwing her into the river
(c) By swinging her at a wooden beam
(d) By pouring boiling water over her

6. Who was the woman that Beloved saw putting leaves in a basket?
(a) Janey
(b) Baby Suggs
(c) Denver
(d) Sethe

7. Why does Paul D think the article must be sensational?
(a) Because it has Sethe's picture
(b) Because the headline says sensational
(c) Because newspapers are always sensational
(d) Because it has to be in order to attract a white audience

8. What does Morrison say the wind is?
(a) A floating spirit
(b) The beginnings of a bad storm
(c) Beloved's breath
(d) Just weather

9. Who does Denver believe is coming to see her?
(a) The schoolteacher
(b) Halle
(c) Baby Suggs
(d) Mrs. Garner

10. How many people come to the party?
(a) 85
(b) 90
(c) 100
(d) 120

11. Whose story does the novel turn back to in chapter 15?
(a) Halle's
(b) Mr. Garner's
(c) Sixo's
(d) Baby Suggs's

12. What does Beloved remember a woman doing?
(a) Vomiting
(b) Putting leaves in a basket
(c) Dying
(d) Giving her a necklace

13. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?
(a) Strange voices
(b) Laughter
(c) A swirling wind
(d) Sheep

14. What does Stamp Paid show Paul D?
(a) A newspaper clipping about Sethe
(b) A photo of his wife
(c) His scars
(d) A letter from his children

15. What is Sethe telling Paul D at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) That she loves Paul D
(b) That she did not kill her child
(c) Why she killed her child
(d) That the photo in the article was not of her

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sethe know Beloved is her child?

2. What has Sethe done to her baby?

3. What happened to Beloved when Sethe became thinner?

4. What type of alcohol is Paul D drinking?

5. Why does Stamp have trouble knocking at Sethe's door?

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