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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. Who owned Sweet Home?
(a) Baby Suggs
(b) The Fords
(c) The Garners
(d) Denver
2. Who does Sethe think about after she has sex with Paul D?
(a) Sixo
(b) Denver
(c) Halle
(d) Mr. Garner
3. Why are Denver and Sethe so surprised that the woman is called Beloved?
(a) Because it is the name of Sethe's dead daughter
(b) Because it was Sethe's name when she was at the plantation
(c) Because it is a white person's name
(d) Because they did not think Beloved was a real name
4. How did the men on the plantation sate their sexual appetite?
(a) They had sex with each other.
(b) They had sex with sheep.
(c) They had sex with calves.
(d) They visited prostitutes.
5. How do the guards wake the men up in the Georgia prison?
(a) By hitting them over the head
(b) By shouting in their ears
(c) By pushing over the boxes
(d) To the sound of rifles
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the Garners pride themselves in doing?
2. Why did Halle break down?
3. What happens as Denver tells the story of her birth?
4. What does Denver ask Beloved after Beloved has pulled out her tooth?
5. What does the woman say her name is?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Georgia the most notorious slave state in the Union?
2. Why does Denver think that Beloved hates Paul D?
3. How is it significant that Baby Suggs preached in churches regardless of domination?
4. Why is it significant that Beloved pulls out a tooth?
5. Why do you think Paul D keeps on saying "red heart"?
6. Why does Amy consider her self as low in the social scale as slaves when she is white?
7. Why does Denver ask Beloved if she saw Jesus?
8. In the seventh chapter, Beloved chokes on a raisin, and again it is Denver who takes her upstairs. Why do you think at this point Denver is still so attentive towards Beloved's needs?
9. What is a Sweet Home Man?
10. Why was Sethe so angry about the boys taking her milk?
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