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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paul D wonder aloud?
(a) If Beloved is her dead daughter
(b) If Sethe is crazy
(c) If there was any other way
(d) If Sethe really loved her children

2. How does Toni Morrison say people can cope with loneliness?
(a) By socializing
(b) By talking to oneself
(c) By living in the city
(d) By rocking in the fetal position

3. 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

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

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

6. Who does Baby Suggs hope to see?
(a) Sethe
(b) Sixo
(c) Halle
(d) Paul D

7. What two characters does Beloved have separate conversations with in this chapter?
(a) Paul D and Sethe
(b) Denver and Sethe
(c) Denver and Janey
(d) Stamp Paid and Denver

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

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

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

11. Why did Paul D leave the Union army?
(a) They tried to hang him
(b) He did nothing but cook and polish shoes
(c) They tortured blackmen
(d) They would not give blackmen rifles

12. Where does Paul D work?
(a) A factory
(b) A slaughterhouse
(c) A nursery
(d) A hospital

13. What sort of building is Paul D sitting outside of?
(a) A store
(b) A church
(c) A factory
(d) A restaurant

14. What does Denver dream about Sethe?
(a) That she kills Beloved
(b) That she takes her up to heaven
(c) That she dies
(d) That she cuts off her head

15. What did Baby Suggs turn the outside kitchen into?
(a) A woodshed
(b) A cold house
(c) A store house
(d) A TV room

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stamp feel guilty?

2. Who comes back to 124 at the beginning of this chapter?

3. What has Sethe spent all her savings on?

4. Who does Paul say badly abused the slaves at Sweet Home?

5. Who arrives at 124 at the beginning of the chapter?

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