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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sethe try to kill Denver?
(a) By pouring boiling water over her
(b) By swinging her at a wooden beam
(c) By dropping her from a great height
(d) By throwing her into the river

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

3. Why did Sethe get fired?
(a) She did not smile
(b) She stopped going into work
(c) She threw a plate at a customer
(d) She was consistently late

4. How many days does Stamp walk up to the house without knocking?
(a) Eight days
(b) Two days
(c) Four days
(d) Six days

5. What was the first thing Denver heard after she went deaf?
(a) Beloved crying
(b) The baby's ghost climbing the stairs
(c) A cat whining
(d) Paul D laughing

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

7. What is the newspaper article about?
(a) Sethe murdering her child
(b) Sethe escaping from Sweet Home
(c) Sethe saving a drowning dog
(d) Sethe getting married

8. Why does Stamp feel guilty?
(a) For telling Paul D about Sethe
(b) For leaving his wife
(c) For killing his slave owner
(d) For knocking over a child on his horse

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

10. Where does the Sheriff and his friends find Sethe?
(a) In Baby Suggs' bedroom
(b) In the barn
(c) In the cold house
(d) In the woodshed

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

12. Who does Denver believe is coming to see her?
(a) Halle
(b) Mrs. Garner
(c) The schoolteacher
(d) Baby Suggs

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From whose point of view is this chapter written?

3. What does Beloved see in the water?

4. What does Denver say she drank from Sethe's nipple?

5. When do the footprints disappear?

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