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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 are Sethe and Beloved trying to gather strength?
(a) To fight each other
(b) To make a dolls house
(c) To go outside
(d) To have fun

2. Who arrives at 124 at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Stamp Paid
(b) Paul D
(c) Halle
(d) The Sheriff

3. 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 Sethe
(d) Denver and Janey

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

5. What does Paul D do when Sethe says there was not another way?
(a) Hit her
(b) Leave the house
(c) Cry
(d) Punch the wall

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Beloved's face occasionally appear?

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

3. Who captured him after he left the Union army?

4. Why does Stamp Paid think that nobody warned Sethe about the men coming to take her back to Sweet Home?

5. What does Beloved say came to mix the men with the women?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Sixo yells out "Seven-O, Seven-O"?

2. What do the diamonds signify in the water?

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

4. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

5. What do you think the footprints by the stream mean?

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

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

8. Do you think a white family would take in a white man as a black family would take in a black man?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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