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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Stamp Paid think that nobody warned Sethe about the men coming to take her back to Sweet Home?
(a) Because they didn't like Sethe
(b) Because they were afraid
(c) Because the men had paid them to keep quiet
(d) Because they thought Baby Suggs was putting on airs

2. Whose face is that Beloved thinks she has lost?
(a) Denver's
(b) Baby Suggs's
(c) Beloved's
(d) Sethe's

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

4. What is Beloved doing when the rain falls?
(a) Running
(b) Climbing onto a roof
(c) Laughing
(d) Standing on a bridge

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

6. What does Paul D do when Sethe says there was not another way?
(a) Punch the wall
(b) Hit her
(c) Leave the house
(d) Cry

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

8. What does Denver say she drank from Sethe's nipple?
(a) Beloved's blood
(b) Water
(c) Milk
(d) Honey

9. What kind of pies does Sethe make?
(a) Blackberry pies
(b) Cherry pies
(c) Blueberry pies
(d) Apple pies

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

11. Who arrives to talk to Paul D?
(a) Janey
(b) Sixo
(c) Denver
(d) Stamp Paid

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

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

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

15. What has Sethe spent all her savings on?
(a) Diamond earrings for Beloved
(b) Party cakes
(c) A wedding dress
(d) Bits of ribbon and clothes for Beloved

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the people who went to the party so upset?

2. What did Baby Suggs turn the outside kitchen into?

3. Why are Sethe and Beloved trying to gather strength?

4. What was the first thing Denver heard after she went deaf?

5. How does Toni Morrison say people can cope with loneliness?

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