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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 Beloved's face occasionally appear?
(a) In a photograph
(b) In the newspaper
(c) In the river
(d) In the sky

2. Who was the woman that Beloved saw putting leaves in a basket?
(a) Denver
(b) Janey
(c) Baby Suggs
(d) Sethe

3. Why does Paul D say Sethe has two legs?
(a) To remind her that she circling around him
(b) To remind her to treat him like a human
(c) To remind her that she is not an animal
(d) To remind her that she can get tired

4. What has Sethe spent all her savings on?
(a) A wedding dress
(b) Bits of ribbon and clothes for Beloved
(c) Diamond earrings for Beloved
(d) Party cakes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the people who went to the party so upset?

2. What does Sethe tell Paul in the end?

3. What fact does Beloved remember about a dead man?

4. Who are the only three people in this chapter?

5. What does Paul D wonder aloud?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In chapter twenty-two what do you think Beloved's story is about?

5. Why did Sethe's sons leave to fight in the Civil War?

6. How does this chapter move around the thoughts of the three women?

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

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

9. What do you think the single, unbroken paragraph in chapter twenty signifies?

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

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