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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. Who are the only three people in this chapter?
(a) Beloved, Stamp Paid and Paul D
(b) Beloved, Denver and Paul D
(c) Beloved, Sethe and Stamp Paid
(d) Beloved, Denver and Sethe

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

3. Who does Paul D say has offered him a place to stay?
(a) Beloved
(b) The church minister
(c) Janey
(d) The slaughterhouse owner

4. Who comes back to 124 at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Baby Suggs
(b) Paul D
(c) Stamp Paid
(d) The Sheriff

5. Who does Paul D say he envies?
(a) Stamp Paid
(b) Halle
(c) A family of slaves that managed to stay together
(d) Beloved

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the man chastise Paul D?

2. Why does Paul D say Sethe has two legs?

3. What does Sethe tell Paul in the end?

4. Who does Stamp Paid say managed to punch Sethe and get her down?

5. Who arrives at 124 at the beginning of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

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

5. What do the diamonds signify in the water?

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

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

8. Why does Paul D mention that Sethe has two legs?

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

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

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