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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. What happened to Beloved when Sethe became thinner?
(a) She started to resemble Sethe
(b) She grew bigger and bigger
(c) She became nasty
(d) She started acting like a baby

4. 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 he doesn't think Paul will believe him
(c) Because Paul D keeps denying the photograph is of Sethe
(d) Because Paul is too sensitive

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

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

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

8. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?
(a) Strange voices
(b) Sheep
(c) Laughter
(d) A swirling wind

9. Why does Sethe think she does not have to explain anything to Beloved?
(a) Because she tried to save her from a life of misery
(b) Because she came back under her own free will
(c) Because she is her mother
(d) Because she is a ghost

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

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

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

13. Who are the only three people in this chapter?
(a) Beloved, Denver and Sethe
(b) Beloved, Stamp Paid and Paul D
(c) Beloved, Sethe and Stamp Paid
(d) Beloved, Denver and Paul D

14. What does Stamp Paid show Paul D?
(a) A newspaper clipping about Sethe
(b) A photo of his wife
(c) A letter from his children
(d) His scars

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sethe tell Beloved she did with the men without skin?

3. How does Sethe know Beloved is her child?

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

5. Who does Stamp Paid say managed to punch Sethe and get her down?

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