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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do the footprints disappear?
(a) When it rains
(b) When it snows
(c) When they begin forgetting
(d) When people step in them

2. How does Sethe know Beloved is her child?
(a) Because she is the spitting image of her father
(b) Because of the scar on the back of her neck
(c) Because she looks like Sethe
(d) Because she has shown Sethe her birth certificate.

3. What is Sethe telling Paul D at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Why she killed her child
(b) That she did not kill her child
(c) That she loves Paul D
(d) That the photo in the article was not of her

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Where does Paul D work?
(a) A hospital
(b) A nursery
(c) A slaughterhouse
(d) A factory

15. What sometimes appears by the stream behind the house?
(a) Beloved's footprints
(b) Teeth
(c) Diamonds
(d) Beloved's fingerprints

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Paul say badly abused the slaves at Sweet Home?

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

3. Who does Stamp Paid say that Sethe tried to stab?

4. What does Morrison say the wind is?

5. Who are the only three people in this chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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