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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What fact does Beloved remember about a dead man?
(a) That he had no skin
(b) That he had sharp teeth
(c) That he had claws
(d) That he had pink eyes

4. What kind of men does Beloved remember bringing her food and water?
(a) Men without arms
(b) Men without legs
(c) Men without skin
(d) Clowns

5. Where does Beloved's face occasionally appear?
(a) In the river
(b) In a photograph
(c) In the newspaper
(d) In the sky

6. Why does the man chastise Paul D?
(a) Because he looks miserable
(b) Because he does not have a job
(c) Because he is a black man in a white neighborhood
(d) Because he is drinking in front of the church

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

8. Why are Sethe and Beloved trying to gather strength?
(a) To go outside
(b) To make a dolls house
(c) To have fun
(d) To fight each other

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

10. Why does Stamp have trouble knocking at Sethe's door?
(a) Because he has broken his knocking hand
(b) Because he is nervous
(c) Because he thinks Sethe is asleep
(d) Because he never has to knock at anyone else's door

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

12. Where does Denver initially go for help?
(a) Paul D
(b) Stamp Paid
(c) The Bodwins
(d) Lady Jones

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

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

15. Who stops Sethe from killing Denver?
(a) Stamp Paid
(b) Halle
(c) The Schoolteacher
(d) Paul D

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the party goers like Baby Suggs?

2. How did Mr. Garner die?

3. Who does Denver think Beloved is?

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

5. Why does Morrison say Sethe, Denver, and Paul D forget Beloved?

(see the answer keys)

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