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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. Where does Paul sleep at first?
(a) In the bath tub
(b) On a chair
(c) On the floor
(d) Under Sethe's bed

2. How many years is its since Sethe's baby died?
(a) Ten years
(b) Eight years
(c) Nine years
(d) Five years

3. What is Beloved doing for Denver upstairs?
(a) Showing her her scars
(b) Telling ghost stories
(c) Trying on clothes
(d) Dancing

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

5. Where does Paul D have sex with Beloved?
(a) In the kitchen
(b) In the coldhouse
(c) In baby Suggs' bed
(d) In the storehouse

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Sethe say Halle mistreated her?

2. Where does Paul D remember meeting fellow slaves?

3. What did Baby Suggs teach?

4. What does Beloved do while sitting in the kitchen with Denver?

5. Who gave Sethe her diamond earrings?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Amy consider her self as low in the social scale as slaves when she is white?

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

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

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

7. Why does Denver not want Sethe to undo her braids?

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

9. Is Beloved falling apart like she says?

10. Why do you think Sethe's scar disgusts Paul D so much?

(see the answer keys)

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