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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 is the name of Sethe's daughter?
(a) Baby Suggs
(b) Denver
(c) Beloved
(d) Ohio

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

3. What does Paul D manage to do while he is at the carnival?
(a) Steal some money
(b) Find a job
(c) Secure a loan
(d) Make a few contacts for possible jobs

4. Who does Sethe think Beloved hates?
(a) Baby Suggs
(b) Her
(c) Paul D
(d) Denver

5. What does Sethe remember Baby Suggs telling her?
(a) To have children
(b) To give up the war
(c) To move back to her homeland
(d) To get married

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sethe do as soon as she sees the woman?

2. What does Paul notice about Beloved?

3. What does Sethe say Paul D is not allowed to do?

4. How long is it since Paul D and Sethe last saw each other?

5. Where does Paul sleep after when he is tired of sleeping on a chair?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it significant to the story that Sethe was not thrown into the sea unlike the other babies?

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

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

4. Is Beloved falling apart like she says?

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

6. Why does Denver deny that she saw Beloved pick up a chair?

7. Is it significant that Denver looks after Beloved and not Sethe?

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

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

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

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