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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 a ghost
(b) That she is her enemy
(c) That she wants to kill her
(d) That she is her daughter

2. What happened to Beloved when Sethe became thinner?
(a) She became nasty
(b) She started to resemble Sethe
(c) She started acting like a baby
(d) She grew bigger and bigger

3. Who does Denver believe is coming to see her?
(a) The schoolteacher
(b) Halle
(c) Baby Suggs
(d) Mrs. Garner

4. What does Paul D wonder aloud?
(a) If Beloved is her dead daughter
(b) If Sethe is crazy
(c) If Sethe really loved her children
(d) If there was any other way

5. What does Stamp Paid show Paul D?
(a) A photo of his wife
(b) A letter from his children
(c) A newspaper clipping about Sethe
(d) His scars

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stamp feel guilty?

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

3. What is the newspaper article about?

4. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?

5. What does Paul D tell Stamp Paid he does not want to see anymore of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Denver stepping out of the house signify?

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

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

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

5. Why does Morrison say loneliness can be dealt with by rocking in a fetal position?

6. Why does Sethe refuse to clean the blood from her nipple?

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

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

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

10. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

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