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

2. What does Denver dream about Sethe?
(a) That she dies
(b) That she kills Beloved
(c) That she cuts off her head
(d) That she takes her up to heaven

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

4. What does Sethe tell Paul in the end?
(a) That she was afraid the white people would kill her babies
(b) That she couldn't afford to keep her babies
(c) That she tried to take her babies somewhere safe
(d) That she loved her babies too much to allow them to live in such a world

5. What does Paul D tell Stamp Paid he does not want to see anymore of?
(a) Death
(b) Photographs
(c) Newspaper clippings
(d) Sad stories

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of building is Paul D sitting outside of?

2. Where does Denver initially go for help?

3. What is the newspaper article about?

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

5. What does Paul D do when Sethe says there was not another way?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

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

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

10. What dose Sethe mean when she says "Me, me"?

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