View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What war did Denver's brother leave to fight in?
(a) World War One
(b) The American Revolution
(c) The Civil War
(d) The Boers War

3. Whose body does Stamp say he had to carry out of 124?
(a) Baby Suggs
(b) Halle's
(c) Beloved
(d) The schoolteacher's nephew's

4. In what style is this chapter written?
(a) Self reflexive
(b) Second person
(c) Epistolary
(d) Stream of consciousness

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Baby Suggs hope to see?

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

3. What has Sethe done to her baby?

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

5. Who does Denver think Beloved is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Sethe want to kill her children?

6. Why do the other ex-slaves hate Baby Suggs so much?

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

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

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

10. Why do you think Denver does not want to hear Sethe's stories?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 633 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample