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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 the newspaper article about?
(a) Sethe getting married
(b) Sethe saving a drowning dog
(c) Sethe escaping from Sweet Home
(d) Sethe murdering her child

2. When do the footprints disappear?
(a) When it rains
(b) When people step in them
(c) When they begin forgetting
(d) When it snows

3. What does Beloved say came to mix the men with the women?
(a) A group of slave hunters
(b) A hurricaine
(c) A tornado
(d) A storm

4. What can Stamp Paid hear around the house?
(a) A swirling wind
(b) Sheep
(c) Strange voices
(d) Laughter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives to talk to Paul D?

2. What does Sethe decide about Beloved?

3. Whose face is that Beloved thinks she has lost?

4. Why does Stamp Paid think that nobody warned Sethe about the men coming to take her back to Sweet Home?

5. What does Paul D do when Sethe says there was not another way?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Sethe refuse to clean the blood from her nipple?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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