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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. How does Toni Morrison say people can cope with loneliness?
(a) By socializing
(b) By talking to oneself
(c) By rocking in the fetal position
(d) By living in the city

2. Who does Baby Suggs hope to see?
(a) Sethe
(b) Sixo
(c) Paul D
(d) Halle

3. What does Sethe make so she and Beloved can enjoy good times together?
(a) New clothes
(b) Plans of their days
(c) A swing
(d) Make up

4. Who captured him after he left the Union army?
(a) A Slave Hunter
(b) The Sheriff of Utah
(c) The Confederates
(d) The Ku Klux Klan

5. Why did Paul D leave the Union army?
(a) They tortured blackmen
(b) They would not give blackmen rifles
(c) He did nothing but cook and polish shoes
(d) They tried to hang him

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of alcohol is Paul D drinking?

2. Whose story does the novel turn back to in chapter 15?

3. What does Denver say she drank from Sethe's nipple?

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

5. Who arrives to take Sethe back to Sweethome?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Paul D and Paid Stamp's gallow humor signify?

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

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

4. Why does Morrison use stream of consciousness in this chapter to express Sethe's thoughts?

5. What does the red ribbon Stamp carries around symbolize?

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

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

8. Why does Stamp ask about a woman he does not know?

9. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

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

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