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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 have trouble knocking at Sethe's door?
(a) Because he never has to knock at anyone else's door
(b) Because he has broken his knocking hand
(c) Because he thinks Sethe is asleep
(d) Because he is nervous

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

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

4. Who arrives to take Sethe back to Sweethome?
(a) The sherriff and his cousin
(b) Mr and Mrs Garner
(c) The sherriff, the schoolteacher, and the schoolteacher's nephew
(d) The sherriff and his wife

5. What does Denver dream about Sethe?
(a) That she dies
(b) That she kills Beloved
(c) That she takes her up to heaven
(d) That she cuts off her head

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose body does Stamp say he had to carry out of 124?

3. Who are the only three people in this chapter?

4. Why does Sethe think she does not have to explain anything to Beloved?

5. What did Baby Suggs turn the outside kitchen into?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Stamp Paid show Paul D the article about Sethe?

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

7. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

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

9. What do the diamonds signify in the water?

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

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