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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 does Beloved wonder about herself?
(a) If she is really human
(b) How old she is
(c) How long she can stay together
(d) If her tooth will grow back

2. Why does Paul D think Sethe's scar does not look like a tree?
(a) Because trees are inviting
(b) Because trees are not red
(c) Because trees blow in the wind
(d) Because it does not have any leaves

3. What happened to Sethe's mother?
(a) She was hung
(b) She was imprisoned
(c) She married a slave owner
(d) She ran away back to her homeland

4. What is the address of Sethe's house?
(a) 124 Bluemoon Rd, Charlottesville, Ohio
(b) 135 Rhode Way, Cincinnati, Ohio
(c) 124 Orangeskies Rd, Cincinnati, Ohio
(d) 124 Bluestone Rd, Cincinnati, Ohio

5. Why does Denver miss her baby sister?
(a) She has no one to tease.
(b) She has no one to talk to.
(c) She took pride in the way people feared her house.
(d) She has no one to play with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Sethe's mother in-law?

2. What did Baby Suggs do for a living when Sethe arrived at 124?

3. What does Beloved do while sitting in the kitchen with Denver?

4. What does Sethe do as soon as she sees the woman?

5. Where did Halle and Sethe used to have sex after they were married?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it significant that Denver's story comes alive?

2. Why is Sethe angry at Paul D for casting the ghost out of her house?

3. Why does Denver deny that she saw Beloved pick up a chair?

4. How is it significant to the story that Sethe was not thrown into the sea unlike the other babies?

5. Is Beloved falling apart like she says?

6. How has the ghost affected Sethe's life?

7. Why does Denver not want Sethe to undo her braids?

8. Why does Amy consider her self as low in the social scale as slaves when she is white?

9. How is Georgia the most notorious slave state in the Union?

10. What do you think the white dress Denver sees signifies?

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