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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 does the man chastise Paul D?
(a) Because he is drinking in front of the church
(b) Because he does not have a job
(c) Because he looks miserable
(d) Because he is a black man in a white neighborhood

2. What kind of men does Beloved remember bringing her food and water?
(a) Men without arms
(b) Men without skin
(c) Men without legs
(d) Clowns

3. How many people come to the party?
(a) 100
(b) 90
(c) 85
(d) 120

4. What two characters does Beloved have separate conversations with in this chapter?
(a) Stamp Paid and Denver
(b) Paul D and Sethe
(c) Denver and Janey
(d) Denver and Sethe

5. Whose face is that Beloved thinks she has lost?
(a) Sethe's
(b) Baby Suggs's
(c) Denver's
(d) Beloved's

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the party goers like Baby Suggs?

2. What is the newspaper article about?

3. What does Paul D tell Stamp Paid he does not want to see anymore of?

4. Where does Beloved's face occasionally appear?

5. From whose point of view is this chapter written?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Denver does not want to hear Sethe's stories?

2. Is Paul D in denial that it is Sethe in the photograph?

3. Why do you think think that the slaves take names such as Baby Suggs?

4. Why do you think Halle smears butter over his face?

5. Why does Sethe refuse to clean the blood from her nipple?

6. Why does Morrison say loneliness can be dealt with by rocking in a fetal position?

7. Why does Stamp Paid show Paul D the article about Sethe?

8. What does the black statue outside the Bodwin's signify?

9. Why do Sethe and Denver need Beloved to be theirs?

10. What does the fact Stamp hears dead black people signify?

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