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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. What does Sethe decide about Beloved?
(a) That she is her daughter
(b) That she is her enemy
(c) That she is a ghost
(d) That she wants to kill her

2. What does Beloved say came to mix the men with the women?
(a) A storm
(b) A group of slave hunters
(c) A hurricaine
(d) A tornado

3. What does Denver say she drank from Sethe's nipple?
(a) Milk
(b) Honey
(c) Water
(d) Beloved's blood

4. Where does the Sheriff and his friends find Sethe?
(a) In the cold house
(b) In Baby Suggs' bedroom
(c) In the barn
(d) In the woodshed

5. How does the chapter begin?
(a) Beloved and Denver are deep into a conversation
(b) Sethe is telling Beloved a story
(c) Beloved is thinking to herself
(d) Denver is dancing

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Beloved remember a woman doing?

3. How does Sethe try to kill Denver?

4. Who arrives to take Sethe back to Sweethome?

5. Why did Sethe get fired?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Sethe walking around in circles symbolize?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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