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Part One: Chapter 1

Part One: Chapters 2–3

Part One: Chapters 4–6

Part One: Chapters 7–8

Part Two: Chapter 19

Part Two: Chapters 20–23

Part Two: Chapters 24–25

Part Three: Chapter 26

Part Three: Chapters 27–28

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Toni Morrison

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1. Where is 124 located?

(A) Alfred, Georgia

(B) Baton Rouge, Louisiana

(D) Wilmington, Delaware

2. Who tells Sethe that her scars resemble a chokecherry tree?

(A) Amy Denver

(B) Paul D

(D) Beloved

3. What does Sethe do while under the delusion that Mr. Bodwin is schoolteacher, who has come to take her back to Sweet Home?

(A) She flees 124 with Denver and Beloved

(B) She commits suicide

(D) She tries to kill him with an ice pick

4. Where does Denver habitually go to find solitude and solace?

(A) A grove she calls her emerald closet

(B) The Clearing

(D) Lady Jones's house

5. Which set of schoolteacher's lessons does Sethe find most shocking?

(A) His lessons on lynching

(B) His lessons on forgiveness, generosity, and Christian love

(D) His lessons on sexual violation

6. What is Beloved doing when Sethe first sees her?

(A) Swimming in a stream

(B) Sleeping near the steps of 124

(D) Trembling in the woodshed

7. What allows Paul D to escape from prison in Georgia?

(A) A prison uprising

(B) A feigned illness

(D) A rainstorm

8. What is signaled by the return of Here Boy?

(A) Beloved's departure

(B) The failure of Reconstruction

(D) Baby Suggs's presence

9. What prevents Baby Suggs from sensing schoolteacher's approach?

(A) A sudden loss of hearing and sight

(B) Fatigue from the previous night's party

(D) Her rejection of religion

10. Who saves Denver's life in the woodshed?

(A) Stamp Paid

(B) Beloved

(D) Howard and Buglar

11. Why does Denver stop going to Lady Jones's school?

(A) She can't afford to pay the tuition

(B) A fellow student asks about her mother's past

(D) Sethe wants her to stay at home

12. Who helps Sethe find safety after she escapes from Sweet Home?

(A) Paul D, Paul F, and Paul A

(B) Paul D, Stamp Paid, and Halle

(D) Amy, Stamp Paid, and Ella

13. Where is Denver born?

(A) In Baby Suggs's bedroom

(B) In a cornfield at Sweet Home

(D) In a hospital in Cincinnati

14. Where does Miss Bodwin want to send Denver?

(A) To a job in a shirt factory

(B) To Oberlin College

(D) To Paris

15. Who are the “men without skin”?

(A) White men that haunt Beloved's thoughts

(B) Sethe's dead ancestors

(D) Traumatized ex-slaves who have numbed themselves to all pain

16. According to Paul D and Sethe, why does Halle slather butter on his face?

(A) Schoolteacher forces him to do it as part of an “experiment”

(B) He wants to soothe his skin after imagining Sixo's burning

(D) Watching schoolteacher's nephews violate Sethe makes him go mad

17. After whom is Denver named?

(A) The young white girl who delivers her

(B) The city of Sethe's birth

(D) The Denver River

18. By whom does Denver believe Sethe is being choked as they sit in the Clearing?

(A) Baby Suggs's ghost

(B) The malevolent energy of the community

(D) Beloved

19. What causes Denver to lose her hearing temporarily?

(A) She hears the story of her father's madness

(B) Her ears are damaged by excessively loud music at the carnival

(D) She hears her sister's screams as Sethe murders her

20. How does Denver regain her hearing?

(A) Baby Suggs blesses her

(B) She hears the dead baby's ghost crawling upstairs

(D) Sethe bathes her head in the stream

21. What finally convinces Sethe that Beloved is her daughter's ghost?

(A) Beloved asks where Sethe's earrings are

(B) Beloved's breath smells of milk

(D) Beloved hums a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children

22. What disconcerts Denver as she leaves the Bodwins' house?

(A) A figurine of a black slave

(B) Mr. Bodwin's use of racial slurs

(D) The sudden apparition of Baby Suggs's ghost

23. What sudden memory concerning her mother most shocks Sethe?

(A) Her mother had a mark burned into her skin in the shape of a circle and cross

(B) Her mother was hanged when Sethe was a child

(D) Her mother spoke a language Sethe no longer remembers

24. When does Paul D tell Sethe she is her own “best thing”?

(A) When he asks her to have a child with him

(B) When he returns to her at the end of the novel

(D) After he tells her about the last time he saw Halle

25. How does Denver regard her father?

(A) As a selfish man who abandoned his family

(B) As a brave man who was shot by schoolteacher

(D) As an angelic man who will return one day

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