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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 does Stamp Paid think that nobody warned Sethe about the men coming to take her back to Sweet Home?
(a) Because the men had paid them to keep quiet
(b) Because they didn't like Sethe
(c) Because they thought Baby Suggs was putting on airs
(d) Because they were afraid

2. Why are the people who went to the party so upset?
(a) Because they had fun at Baby Suggs's house
(b) Sethe is not a nice person
(c) The pies were awful
(d) They were sent home too early

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

4. What did Baby Suggs turn the outside kitchen into?
(a) A cold house
(b) A TV room
(c) A store house
(d) A woodshed

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Morrison say Sethe, Denver, and Paul D forget Beloved?

2. Who does Paul D say had all the good ideas?

3. What is Beloved doing when the rain falls?

4. What does Sethe tell Paul in the end?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Is Paul D in denial that it is Sethe in the photograph?

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