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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 fact does Beloved remember about a dead man?
(a) That he had no skin
(b) That he had pink eyes
(c) That he had sharp teeth
(d) That he had claws

2. What is the newspaper article about?
(a) Sethe murdering her child
(b) Sethe saving a drowning dog
(c) Sethe escaping from Sweet Home
(d) Sethe getting married

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

4. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?
(a) A swirling wind
(b) Strange voices
(c) Sheep
(d) Laughter

5. Where does Beloved's face occasionally appear?
(a) In the river
(b) In the sky
(c) In the newspaper
(d) In a photograph

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Denver initially go for help?

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

3. How does Sethe know Beloved is her child?

4. What does Denver say she drank from Sethe's nipple?

5. Who does the man on the horse ask for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sethe walking around in circles symbolize?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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