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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. What does Denver ask Beloved after Beloved has pulled out her tooth?
(a) If she can make a wish
(b) If she is hurt
(c) To do it again
(d) If she can give her the tooth

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

3. Where does Paul D take Sethe and Denver?
(a) To a fun fair
(b) To the theatre
(c) To a carnival
(d) To the cinema

4. In what way does Sethe say Halle mistreated her?
(a) He did not show up to run away with her.
(b) He never gave her money.
(c) He mentally tortured her.
(d) He beat her.

5. What does Beloved ask Denver about?
(a) Her hiding place
(b) Sethe
(c) Her birth
(d) Paul D

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Beloved say is the only person she needs to have?

2. What does Sethe feed outside the back of her workplace?

3. What did the Garners pride themselves in doing?

4. Why does Sethe remember Howard?

5. Why is Sethe angry with Paul D?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Denver ask Beloved if she saw Jesus?

2. Why do you think Paul D is ready to accept the presence of a ghost in the house?

3. In what way does the seventh chapter show the horrors of slavery?

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

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

6. Why is it significant that Beloved pulls out a tooth?

7. How is it significant that Denver's story comes alive?

8. How has the ghost affected Sethe's life?

9. Why do think Paul thinks that Beloved is moving him around the house?

10. Why was Sethe so angry about the boys taking her milk?

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