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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beloved say came to mix the men with the women?
(a) A tornado
(b) A hurricaine
(c) A storm
(d) A group of slave hunters

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

3. Who does the man on the horse ask for?
(a) Beloved
(b) Baby Suggs
(c) Judy
(d) Sethe

4. 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

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 pouring boiling water over her
(d) By swinging her at a wooden beam

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

7. Who does Stamp Paid say managed to punch Sethe and get her down?
(a) Ella
(b) Judy
(c) Amy
(d) Janey

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

9. Who captured him after he left the Union army?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan
(b) The Sheriff of Utah
(c) The Confederates
(d) A Slave Hunter

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

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

12. Who arrives after the sheriff has taken Sethe away?
(a) Two children delivering shoes
(b) Halle
(c) A preacher
(d) A peddlar

13. How does the chapter begin?
(a) Denver is dancing
(b) Beloved is thinking to herself
(c) Sethe is telling Beloved a story
(d) Beloved and Denver are deep into a conversation

14. What does Beloved see in the water?
(a) Blood
(b) A heart
(c) A diamond earring
(d) The face she lost

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?

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

3. Why does Stamp Paid think that nobody warned Sethe about the men coming to take her back to Sweet Home?

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

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

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