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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 is Beloved doing when the rain falls?
(a) Running
(b) Standing on a bridge
(c) Laughing
(d) Climbing onto a roof

2. What does Sethe make so she and Beloved can enjoy good times together?
(a) Plans of their days
(b) Make up
(c) A swing
(d) New clothes

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

4. How does Sethe know Beloved is her child?
(a) Because of the scar on the back of her neck
(b) Because she is the spitting image of her father
(c) Because she looks like Sethe
(d) Because she has shown Sethe her birth certificate.

5. What does Sethe say that trying to kill her children prevented from happening?
(a) Her children being raped
(b) Her children having to go back to Sweet Home
(c) Her children having to see a white face
(d) Her children's souls from dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Sheriff and his friends find Sethe?

2. From whose point of view is this chapter written?

3. In what style is this chapter written?

4. Why are Sethe and Beloved trying to gather strength?

5. How does Toni Morrison say people can cope with loneliness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the black statue outside the Bodwin's signify?

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

(see the answer keys)

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