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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Paul D work?
(a) A nursery
(b) A hospital
(c) A factory
(d) A slaughterhouse

2. Who does Paul say badly abused the slaves at Sweet Home?
(a) Mrs. Garner
(b) The Sheriff
(c) The schoolteacher
(d) Mr. Garner

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

4. What does Paul D do when Sethe says there was not another way?
(a) Hit her
(b) Cry
(c) Punch the wall
(d) Leave the house

5. Who was the woman that Beloved saw putting leaves in a basket?
(a) Denver
(b) Sethe
(c) Janey
(d) Baby Suggs

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

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

8. What has Sethe spent all her savings on?
(a) Party cakes
(b) Diamond earrings for Beloved
(c) Bits of ribbon and clothes for Beloved
(d) A wedding dress

9. What does Sethe tell Beloved she did with the men without skin?
(a) Tortured them
(b) Laughed at them
(c) Killed them
(d) Ran them off

10. Why are the people who went to the party so upset?
(a) Sethe is not a nice person
(b) They were sent home too early
(c) The pies were awful
(d) Because they had fun at Baby Suggs's house

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

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

13. Why does Paul D say Sethe has two legs?
(a) To remind her that she can get tired
(b) To remind her to treat him like a human
(c) To remind her that she is not an animal
(d) To remind her that she circling around him

14. Who does Baby Suggs hope to see?
(a) Sethe
(b) Halle
(c) Sixo
(d) Paul D

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What war did Denver's brother leave to fight in?

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

3. What does Beloved remember a woman doing?

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

5. Why can't Stamp Paid tell Paul D that he saw Sethe take her children into the woodshed?

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