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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sethe say that trying to kill her children prevented from happening?
(a) Her children's souls from dying.
(b) Her children being raped
(c) Her children having to see a white face
(d) Her children having to go back to Sweet Home

2. When do the footprints disappear?
(a) When people step in them
(b) When it rains
(c) When it snows
(d) When they begin forgetting

3. What does Sethe tell Paul in the end?
(a) That she was afraid the white people would kill her babies
(b) That she couldn't afford to keep her babies
(c) That she loved her babies too much to allow them to live in such a world
(d) That she tried to take her babies somewhere safe

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

5. What does Sethe tell Beloved she did with the men without skin?
(a) Laughed at them
(b) Tortured them
(c) Killed them
(d) Ran them off

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

7. Who does Stamp Paid say that Sethe tried to stab?
(a) Mr. Bodwin
(b) Beloved
(c) Denver
(d) Janey

8. Who does Paul D say had all the good ideas?
(a) Sethe
(b) Stamp Paid
(c) Sixo
(d) Halle

9. What type of alcohol is Paul D drinking?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Beer
(c) Brandy
(d) Vodka

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

11. Whose body does Stamp say he had to carry out of 124?
(a) The schoolteacher's nephew's
(b) Halle's
(c) Beloved
(d) Baby Suggs

12. What has Sethe done to her baby?
(a) Hung her
(b) Cut her throat
(c) Cut out her eyes
(d) Drowned her

13. Who does Denver think Beloved is?
(a) Her friend
(b) Her aunt
(c) Her sister
(d) Her cousin

14. Who does Paul D say has offered him a place to stay?
(a) The slaughterhouse owner
(b) Beloved
(c) Janey
(d) The church minister

15. What war did Denver's brother leave to fight in?
(a) The Civil War
(b) The American Revolution
(c) The Boers War
(d) World War One

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose face is that Beloved thinks she has lost?

2. What two characters does Beloved have separate conversations with in this chapter?

3. Why does Stamp feel guilty?

4. Where does the Sheriff and his friends find Sethe?

5. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?

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