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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of building is Paul D sitting outside of?
(a) A factory
(b) A store
(c) A restaurant
(d) A church

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

3. Who arrives to take Sethe back to Sweethome?
(a) The sherriff, the schoolteacher, and the schoolteacher's nephew
(b) The sherriff and his cousin
(c) The sherriff and his wife
(d) Mr and Mrs Garner

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

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

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

7. How did Mr. Garner die?
(a) A broken heart
(b) Cancer
(c) A stroke
(d) A heart attack

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

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

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

11. What did Baby Suggs turn the outside kitchen into?
(a) A woodshed
(b) A TV room
(c) A cold house
(d) A store house

12. What does Paul D do when Sethe says there was not another way?
(a) Hit her
(b) Leave the house
(c) Cry
(d) Punch the wall

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul D tell Stamp Paid he does not want to see anymore of?

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

3. Whose face is that Beloved thinks she has lost?

4. Who does Paul D say has offered him a place to stay?

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

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