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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Halle break down?
(a) He saw Sethe being beaten.
(b) He saw Sethe caressing a white boy.
(c) He saw Sethe trying to kill their children.
(d) He saw Sethe being raped in the barn.

2. How do the guards wake the men up in the Georgia prison?
(a) By pushing over the boxes
(b) To the sound of rifles
(c) By shouting in their ears
(d) By hitting them over the head

3. What happened to Sethe's mother?
(a) She ran away back to her homeland
(b) She was imprisoned
(c) She was hung
(d) She married a slave owner

4. What did the Garners pride themselves in doing?
(a) Paying their slaves
(b) Allowing their slaves to marry
(c) Making their slaves into men
(d) Allowing their slaves into town

5. What does Sethe feed outside the back of her workplace?
(a) Children
(b) Birds
(c) Dogs
(d) Cats

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sethe react to Denver asking Paul D how long he is going to stay?

2. What is the name of Sethe's daughter?

3. What does Denver decide not to tell her mother?

4. What did the schoolteacher tell Mr. Garner's slaves?

5. Where do the guards lock Paul D and the other men at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sethe angry at Paul D for casting the ghost out of her house?

2. Do you think it is important that Sethe's scar resembles a tree?

3. Why do you think Mrs. Garner laughs at Sethe when she asks if she can have a proper wedding?

4. Why is Denver convinced that Beloved is her sister?

5. How is it significant that Baby Suggs preached in churches regardless of domination?

6. Why do you think Paul D keeps on saying "red heart"?

7. What do you think Baby Suggs meant by giving up the war?

8. Why do you think the town is so angry at Sethe?

9. How is Georgia the most notorious slave state in the Union?

10. Why does Denver think that Beloved hates Paul D?

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