MCQs - "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
SET-I
1. Where is 124 located?a) Alfred, Georgia
b) Baton Rouge, Louisiana
c) Just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio
d) Wilmington, Delaware
Answer: c) Just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio
2. How many children did Sethe and Halle have together?
a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) Five
Answer: c) Four
3. What caused Paul D to shut down his heart and head in Alfred, Georgia?
a) Experiences in prison
b) Beatings as a slave
c) Survival in the wild
d) Longing for Sethe
Answer: a) Experiences in prison
4. Who was the slave who would walk thirty miles to meet his girlfriend?
a) Paul A
b) Paul D
c) Paul F
d) Sixo
Answer: d) Sixo
5. What does Denver call the ring of boxwood bushes that smells of cologne?
a) Emerald Closet
b) Fairy Land
c) Hidden Wood
d) Sweet Home
Answer: a) Emerald Closet
6. What did Halle witness at Sweet Home that drove him crazy?
a) A slave being murdered
b) Sethe being raped
c) A child being tortured
d) A man molesting cattle
Answer: b) Sethe being raped
7. What overpowering smell is associated with the carnival?
a) Rotting Roses
b) Popcorn
c) Manure
d) Sweat
Answer: a) Rotting Roses
8. What does Beloved walk out of when she first appears?
a) Cave
b) Barn
c) Stream
d) Fire
Answer: c) Stream
9. Who preached to the black community of Cincinnati in "the Clearing"?
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Baby Suggs
d) Halle
Answer: c) Baby Suggs
10. What did Sethe jingle to entertain her first daughter?
a) Keys
b) Bells
c) Chains
d) Earrings
Answer: d) Earrings
11. Why didn't anyone in the community warn Sethe that schoolteacher was coming for her?
a) They were jealous
b) They didn't know
c) They had been threatened
d) They worked for him
Answer: a) They were jealous
12. What does Paul D do after he confronts Sethe about killing her daughter?
a) He chases Beloved away
b) He hits her
c) He cries
d) He leaves
Answer: d) He leaves
13. What did Baby Suggs want added to her room during her last days?
a) Color
b) Flowers
c) Air
d) Darkness
Answer: a) Color
14. What symbol did Sethe's mother have burned into her skin?
a) Star
b) Vine and Thorns
c) Tree
d) Cross and Circle
Answer: d) Cross and Circle
15. Where did Sethe and Halle first have sex?
a) A barn
b) The forest
c) A cornfield
d) Mrs. Garner's bedroom
Answer: c) A cornfield
16. What is Stamp Paid's term for the anger that white people plant in black people?
a) The Fury
b) The Wolf
c) The Sickness
d) The Jungle
Answer: d) The Jungle
17. Which character thinks you should love everything just a little bit?
a) Sethe
b) Paul D
c) Denver
d) Baby Suggs
Answer: d) Baby Suggs
18. What prompted Sethe's two sons to run away from home?
a) Desire for adventure
b) Their dying grandmother
c) Fear of slavery
d) Their dead sister's ghost
Answer: d) Their dead sister's ghost
19. What does Beloved describe as "the place I am"?
a) Silence in the Clearing
b) Darkness in cold house
c) Memories of Sweet Home
d) The rusted tobacco box
Answer: b) Darkness in cold house
20. What happened to Sethe's mother?
a) She was lynched
b) She ran away
c) She died of pneumonia
d) She drowned
Answer: a) She was lynched
21. How is Paul D's heart described?
a) A burning ember
b) A steel bear trap
c) A twisted briar
d) A rusted tobacco tin
Answer: d) A rusted tobacco tin
22. What did Denver ingest along with her mother's milk?
a) Her mother's tears
b) Her father's sweat
c) Her sister's blood
d) Her grandmother's whiskey
Answer: c) Her sister's blood
23. Why was Paul D sent to prison?
a) Murder
b) Attempted murder
c) Burglary
d) Rape
Answer: b) Attempted murder
24. What did Sethe use to kill her first daughter?
a) Pillow
b) Saw
c) Poison
d) Gun
Answer: b) Saw
25. What phrase does Paul D repeat after having sex with Beloved?
a) "Red Heart"
b) "Baby Ghost"
c) "Tobacco Tin"
d) "Sweet Home"
Answer: a) "Red Heart"
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26. Where was Sethe when her water broke to give birth to Denver?
a) In a barn
b) In a boat
c) Under a bush
d) Atop a hill
Answer: b) In a boat
27. Whose gaze sustains and completes Denver?
a) Sethe's
b) Beloved's
c) Paul D's
d) Here Boy's
Answer: b) Beloved's
28. What makes Beloved wonder if her entire body will begin to fall apart?
a) Her hair falls out
b) Her fingers go numb
c) A tooth falls out
d) She goes blind
Answer: c) A tooth falls out
29. Jenny Whitlow is the name given on whose slavery bill of sale?
a) Sethe's
b) Denver's
c) Lady Jones's
d) Baby Suggs'
Answer: d) Baby Suggs'
30. Who speaks of spending time among "men without skin"?
a) Sethe
b) Beloved
c) Denver
d) Paul D
Answer: b) Beloved
31. What do Sethe's whip scars resemble?
a) Railroad tracks
b) Iron gate
c) Crying face
d) Chokecherry tree
Answer: d) Chokecherry tree
32. How much does Paul D learn that he was worth as a slave?
a) 9
b) 90
c) 900
c) 900
d) 9,000
Answer: c) $900
33. Who made Paul D question the legitimacy of his manhood at Sweet Home?
a) Sethe
b) Mr. Garner
c) Halle
d) Schoolteacher
Answer: d) Schoolteacher
34. When Denver was seven, what did the other students tease her about at school?
a) Her tattered clothes
b) Her father being crazy
c) Her weight
d) Her mother committing murder
Answer: d) Her mother committing murder
35. Where does Beloved say she got her name?
a) In the dark
b) In the night
c) In the light
d) In the water
Answer: a) In the dark
36. How are Paul A, Paul D, and Paul F related?
a) Brothers
b) Step brothers
c) Half-brothers
d) Cousins
Answer: c) Half-brothers
37. What does Stamp Paid say that Sethe was trying to do when she killed her daughter?
a) "Protect the innocent"
b) "Outhurt the hurter"
c) "Break the chain"
d) "Outlast the devil"
Answer: b) "Outhurt the hurter"
38. Sethe blames her initial inability to recognize Beloved on:
a) The distraction of Paul D
b) Her broken heart
c) Supernatural forces
d) Her love for Denver
Answer: b) Her broken heart
39. After killing her first daughter, who does Sethe try to kill next?
a) Howard
b) Buglar
c) Denver
d) Schoolteacher
Answer: c) Denver
40. What does Paul D do at the church where he goes to stay after leaving 124?
a) Drinks
b) Prays
c) Cries
d) Starts fights
Answer: a) Drinks
41. Who was Sethe named after?
a) Her mother
b) Her father
c) Her owner
d) A saint
Answer: b) Her father
42. How is Beloved's sexuality described?
a) Remote
b) Androgynous
c) Shining
d) Aggressive
Answer: c) Shining
43. When Sixo shouts "Seven-O!" over and over, what is he referring to?
a) His real name
b) His dead lover
c) His tribal ancestor
d) His unborn child
Answer: d) His unborn child
44. To show resilience after Paul D's departure, Sethe ___ with Denver and Beloved.
a) Has a party
b) Buys new dresses
c) Goes ice skating
d) Attends a carnival
Answer: c) Goes ice skating
45. Sethe hears Beloved humming a song she made up and decides Beloved must be:
a) Denver's imaginary friend
b) Sethe's murdered daughter
c) Another escaped slave
d) Paul D's child
Answer: b) Sethe's murdered daughter
46. Halle's view on slavery under the Garners vs. schoolteacher:
a) He preferred Mr. Garner
b) He preferred Mrs. Garner
c) He preferred schoolteacher
d) He saw no real difference
Answer: d) He saw no real difference
47. Denver warns Beloved not to ___ Sethe too much.
a) Love
b) Hate
c) Trust
d) Fear
Answer: a) Love
48. Stamp Paid stopped going to 124 after ___.
a) Baby Suggs died
b) The boys ran away
c) The baby was murdered
d) Beloved appeared
Answer: a) Baby Suggs died
49. What does Paul D ask Sethe instead of confessing to sex with Beloved?
a) To have a baby
b) To marry him
c) To kill Beloved
d) To run away
Answer: a) To have a baby
50. With which child was Sethe pregnant when she ran away from Sweet Home?
a) Howard
b) Buglar
c) Beloved
d) Denver
Answer: d) Denver
51. What is Beloved doing when Sethe first sees her?
a) Swimming in a stream
b) Sleeping near the steps of 124
c) Walking home from the carnival with Denver
d) Trembling in the woodshed
Answer: b) Sleeping near the steps of 124
52. 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
c) Lack of cooperation from the black community
d) Her rejection of religion
Answer: c) Lack of cooperation from the black community
53. Where does Denver habitually go to find solitude and solace?
a) A grove she calls her emerald closet
b) The Clearing
c) Church
d) Lady Jones's house
Answer: a) A grove she calls her emerald closet
54. What does Sethe do while under the delusion that Mr. Bodwin is schoolteacher?
a) She flees 124 with Denver and Beloved
b) She commits suicide
c) She orders him to leave her home
d) She tries to attack him with an ice pick
Answer: d) She tries to attack him with an ice pick
55. 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
c) As a cowardly man who watched his wife being raped but failed to intervene
d) As an angelic man who will return one day
Answer: d) As an angelic man who will return one day
56. Who tells Sethe that her scars resemble a chokecherry tree?
a) Amy Denver
b) Paul D
c) Baby Suggs
d) Beloved
Answer: a) Amy Denver
57. What allows Paul D to escape from prison in Georgia?
a) A prison uprising
b) A feigned illness
c) Mr. Garner's intervention
d) A rainstorm
Answer: d) A rainstorm
58. 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
c) Her mother killed all of her other babies
d) Her mother spoke a language Sethe no longer remembers
Answer: c) Her mother killed all of her other babies
59. By whom does Denver believe Sethe is being choked in the Clearing?
a) Baby Suggs's ghost
b) The malevolent energy of the community
c) Schoolteacher
d) Beloved
Answer: d) Beloved
60. What is signaled by the return of Here Boy?
a) Beloved's departure
b) The failure of Reconstruction
c) Halle's death
d) Baby Suggs's presence
Answer: a) Beloved's departure
61. 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
c) Sethe sees the scar under Beloved's chin
d) Beloved hums a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children
Answer: d) Beloved hums a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children
62. Who saves Denver's life in the woodshed?
a) Stamp Paid
b) Beloved
c) The Thirty-Mile Woman
d) Howard and Buglar
Answer: a) Stamp Paid
63. What did Sethe use to pay for her dead daughter's gravestone engraving?
a) Two stolen earrings
b) Ten minutes of sex
c) One bunch of wildflowers
d) Nine months of labor
Answer: b) Ten minutes of sex
64. What causes Denver to lose her hearing temporarily?
a) She hears the story of her father's madness
b) Her ears are damaged by loud music at the carnival
c) She asks Sethe whether she was put in jail for murder but goes deaf before hearing the answer
d) She hears her sister's screams as Sethe murders her
Answer: c) She asks Sethe whether she was put in jail for murder but goes deaf before hearing the answer
65. 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
c) Amy, Janey, and Lady Jones
d) Amy, Stamp Paid, and Ella
Answer: d) Amy, Stamp Paid, and Ella
66. 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
c) When they walk home from the carnival
d) After he tells her about the last time he saw Halle
Answer: b) When he returns to her at the end of the novel
67. What disconcerts Denver as she leaves the Bodwins' house?
a) A figurine of a Black slave
b) Mr. Bodwin's use of racial slurs
c) A collection of books about white superiority
d) The sudden apparition of Baby Suggs's ghost
Answer: a) A figurine of a Black slave
68. Who are the "men without skin"?
a) White men that haunt Beloved's thoughts
b) Sethe's dead ancestors
c) Enslaved men
d) Traumatized ex-slaves who numbed themselves to pain
Answer: a) White men that haunt Beloved's thoughts
69. What is the most shocking of schoolteacher's lessons to Sethe?
a) His lessons on lynching
b) His lessons on forgiveness, generosity, and Christian love
c) His lessons on her animal characteristics
d) His lessons on sexual violation
Answer: c) His lessons on her animal characteristics
70. How does Denver regain her hearing?
a) Baby Suggs blesses her
b) She hears the dead baby's ghost crawling upstairs
c) Beloved tells her about the afterlife
d) Sethe bathes her head in the stream
Answer: b) She hears the dead baby's ghost crawling upstairs
71. After whom is Denver named?
a) The young white girl who delivers her
b) The city of Sethe's birth
c) A kind of wildflower
d) The Denver River
Answer: a) The young white girl who delivers her
72. Where is Denver born?
a) In Baby Suggs's bedroom
b) In a cornfield at Sweet Home
c) In a boat
d) In a hospital in Cincinnati
Answer: c) In a boat
73. Why does Denver stop going to Lady Jones's school?
a) She can't afford tuition
b) A fellow student asks about her mother's past
c) She feels disturbed by Lady Jones's self-loathing
d) Sethe wants her to stay at home
Answer: b) A fellow student asks about her mother's past
74. 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
c) He wants to convince Mrs. Garner he is insane
d) Watching schoolteacher's nephews violate Sethe makes him go mad
Answer: d) Watching schoolteacher's nephews violate Sethe makes him go mad
75. Where does Miss Bodwin want to send Denver?
a) To a job in a shirt factory
b) To Oberlin College
c) To a school for black girls in Pennsylvania
d) To Paris
Answer: b) To Oberlin College
76. Whose spirit does Denver consult before seeking help outside?
a) Baby Ghost's
b) Baby Suggs'
c) Halle's
d) Here Boy's
Answer: b) Baby Suggs'
77. When Beloved disappears, how does the small boy describe the naked woman he saw running through the woods?
a) Fish for hair
b) Fire in her eyes
c) Breathing darkness
d) Singing silently
Answer: a) Fish for hair
78. What disturbs Denver after she gets a job with the Bodwins?
a) Statuette of a slave
b) Beloved at the window
c) Blood-smeared saw
d) Voices in the dark
Answer: a) Statuette of a slave
79. How did the men on the plantation sate their sexual appetite?
a) They had sex with calves
b) They had sex with sheep
c) They had sex with each other
d) They visited prostitutes
Answer: a) They had sex with calves
80. Who is Lady Jones to Denver?
a) Childhood playmate
b) Mother's employer
c) Former teacher
d) Local grocer
Answer: c) Former teacher
81. How has Beloved changed when confronted by the singing women?
a) She is skeletal
b) She is smaller
c) She is white
d) She is pregnant
Answer: d) She is pregnant
82. The novel's central theme is the devastation wrought by ___.
a) Death
b) War
c) Slavery
d) Age
Answer: c) Slavery
83. What does Paul D tell Sethe is her "best thing"?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Herself
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Herself
84. Where do the guards lock Paul D and the other men at night?
a) In toilet cubicles
b) In wooden boxes
c) In coffins
d) In a prison cell
Answer: b) In wooden boxes
85. Who murdered Sethe's first daughter?
a) Schoolteacher
b) Halle
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Sethe
86. Whose life force is Beloved draining?
a) Sethe's
b) Denver's
c) Paul D's
d) Her own
Answer: a) Sethe's
87. Who becomes Sethe's lover?
a) Paul A
b) Paul D
c) Paul F
d) Sixo
Answer: b) Paul D
88. The death of Sethe's daughter and Beloved's exorcism occur due to ___.
a) The slave owners
b) Paul D
c) The black community
d) Denver
Answer: c) The black community
89. Who bought a cologne (perfume) for Denver and Sethe on Christmas?
a) Baby Suggs
b) Miss Bodwin
c) Paul D
d) Mrs Garner
Answer: b) Miss Bodwin
90. Who is the protagonist of the novel?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Sethe
91. Which historical period is the setting for Beloved?
a) The Great Depression
b) The Civil Rights era
c) Reconstruction
d) The Civil War
Answer: c) Reconstruction
92. Who was an agent of the Underground Railroad?
a) Halle
b) Mrs. Garner
c) Stamp Paid
d) Schoolteacher
Answer: c) Stamp Paid
93. How does Sethe handle Beloved's departure?
a) She goes to church
b) She leaves 124
c) She hires a servant
d) She waits to die
Answer: d) She waits to die
94. What religion is referenced throughout the novel?
a) Christianity
b) Judaism
c) Islam
d) Buddhism
Answer: a) Christianity
95. Who hates her own blonde hair?
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Beloved
d) Lady Jones
Answer: d) Lady Jones
96. What is the name of the plantation where Sethe and Paul D first met?
a) Locust Grove
b) Sweet Home
c) Pleasant Prospect
d) Rose Glenn
Answer: b) Sweet Home
97. The townspeople come to see Beloved as a representative of ___.
a) Implacable loneliness
b) Unforgivable violence
c) Racial tension
d) Family connectedness
Answer: a) Implacable loneliness
98. Who does Sethe name her daughter after?
a) Mrs. Garner
b) Halle
c) Amy Denver
d) Ella
Answer: c) Amy Denver
99. The novel ends with the townspeople forgetting which character?
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Baby Suggs
d) Beloved
Answer: d) Beloved
100. How do characters react to supernatural events?
a) Surprise
b) Horror
c) Acceptance
d) Dismissal
Answer: c) Acceptance
101. Which is the most dynamic character in Beloved?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Paul D
d) Sethe
Answer: d) Sethe
102. Which historical period is the setting for Beloved?
a) The Great Depression
b) The Civil Rights era
c) Reconstruction
d) The Civil War
Answer: c) Reconstruction
Answer: c) $900
33. Who made Paul D question the legitimacy of his manhood at Sweet Home?
a) Sethe
b) Mr. Garner
c) Halle
d) Schoolteacher
Answer: d) Schoolteacher
34. When Denver was seven, what did the other students tease her about at school?
a) Her tattered clothes
b) Her father being crazy
c) Her weight
d) Her mother committing murder
Answer: d) Her mother committing murder
35. Where does Beloved say she got her name?
a) In the dark
b) In the night
c) In the light
d) In the water
Answer: a) In the dark
36. How are Paul A, Paul D, and Paul F related?
a) Brothers
b) Step brothers
c) Half-brothers
d) Cousins
Answer: c) Half-brothers
37. What does Stamp Paid say that Sethe was trying to do when she killed her daughter?
a) "Protect the innocent"
b) "Outhurt the hurter"
c) "Break the chain"
d) "Outlast the devil"
Answer: b) "Outhurt the hurter"
38. Sethe blames her initial inability to recognize Beloved on:
a) The distraction of Paul D
b) Her broken heart
c) Supernatural forces
d) Her love for Denver
Answer: b) Her broken heart
39. After killing her first daughter, who does Sethe try to kill next?
a) Howard
b) Buglar
c) Denver
d) Schoolteacher
Answer: c) Denver
40. What does Paul D do at the church where he goes to stay after leaving 124?
a) Drinks
b) Prays
c) Cries
d) Starts fights
Answer: a) Drinks
41. Who was Sethe named after?
a) Her mother
b) Her father
c) Her owner
d) A saint
Answer: b) Her father
42. How is Beloved's sexuality described?
a) Remote
b) Androgynous
c) Shining
d) Aggressive
Answer: c) Shining
43. When Sixo shouts "Seven-O!" over and over, what is he referring to?
a) His real name
b) His dead lover
c) His tribal ancestor
d) His unborn child
Answer: d) His unborn child
44. To show resilience after Paul D's departure, Sethe ___ with Denver and Beloved.
a) Has a party
b) Buys new dresses
c) Goes ice skating
d) Attends a carnival
Answer: c) Goes ice skating
45. Sethe hears Beloved humming a song she made up and decides Beloved must be:
a) Denver's imaginary friend
b) Sethe's murdered daughter
c) Another escaped slave
d) Paul D's child
Answer: b) Sethe's murdered daughter
46. Halle's view on slavery under the Garners vs. schoolteacher:
a) He preferred Mr. Garner
b) He preferred Mrs. Garner
c) He preferred schoolteacher
d) He saw no real difference
Answer: d) He saw no real difference
47. Denver warns Beloved not to ___ Sethe too much.
a) Love
b) Hate
c) Trust
d) Fear
Answer: a) Love
48. Stamp Paid stopped going to 124 after ___.
a) Baby Suggs died
b) The boys ran away
c) The baby was murdered
d) Beloved appeared
Answer: a) Baby Suggs died
49. What does Paul D ask Sethe instead of confessing to sex with Beloved?
a) To have a baby
b) To marry him
c) To kill Beloved
d) To run away
Answer: a) To have a baby
50. With which child was Sethe pregnant when she ran away from Sweet Home?
a) Howard
b) Buglar
c) Beloved
d) Denver
Answer: d) Denver
51. What is Beloved doing when Sethe first sees her?
a) Swimming in a stream
b) Sleeping near the steps of 124
c) Walking home from the carnival with Denver
d) Trembling in the woodshed
Answer: b) Sleeping near the steps of 124
52. 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
c) Lack of cooperation from the black community
d) Her rejection of religion
Answer: c) Lack of cooperation from the black community
53. Where does Denver habitually go to find solitude and solace?
a) A grove she calls her emerald closet
b) The Clearing
c) Church
d) Lady Jones's house
Answer: a) A grove she calls her emerald closet
54. What does Sethe do while under the delusion that Mr. Bodwin is schoolteacher?
a) She flees 124 with Denver and Beloved
b) She commits suicide
c) She orders him to leave her home
d) She tries to attack him with an ice pick
Answer: d) She tries to attack him with an ice pick
55. 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
c) As a cowardly man who watched his wife being raped but failed to intervene
d) As an angelic man who will return one day
Answer: d) As an angelic man who will return one day
56. Who tells Sethe that her scars resemble a chokecherry tree?
a) Amy Denver
b) Paul D
c) Baby Suggs
d) Beloved
Answer: a) Amy Denver
57. What allows Paul D to escape from prison in Georgia?
a) A prison uprising
b) A feigned illness
c) Mr. Garner's intervention
d) A rainstorm
Answer: d) A rainstorm
58. 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
c) Her mother killed all of her other babies
d) Her mother spoke a language Sethe no longer remembers
Answer: c) Her mother killed all of her other babies
59. By whom does Denver believe Sethe is being choked in the Clearing?
a) Baby Suggs's ghost
b) The malevolent energy of the community
c) Schoolteacher
d) Beloved
Answer: d) Beloved
60. What is signaled by the return of Here Boy?
a) Beloved's departure
b) The failure of Reconstruction
c) Halle's death
d) Baby Suggs's presence
Answer: a) Beloved's departure
61. 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
c) Sethe sees the scar under Beloved's chin
d) Beloved hums a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children
Answer: d) Beloved hums a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children
62. Who saves Denver's life in the woodshed?
a) Stamp Paid
b) Beloved
c) The Thirty-Mile Woman
d) Howard and Buglar
Answer: a) Stamp Paid
63. What did Sethe use to pay for her dead daughter's gravestone engraving?
a) Two stolen earrings
b) Ten minutes of sex
c) One bunch of wildflowers
d) Nine months of labor
Answer: b) Ten minutes of sex
64. What causes Denver to lose her hearing temporarily?
a) She hears the story of her father's madness
b) Her ears are damaged by loud music at the carnival
c) She asks Sethe whether she was put in jail for murder but goes deaf before hearing the answer
d) She hears her sister's screams as Sethe murders her
Answer: c) She asks Sethe whether she was put in jail for murder but goes deaf before hearing the answer
65. 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
c) Amy, Janey, and Lady Jones
d) Amy, Stamp Paid, and Ella
Answer: d) Amy, Stamp Paid, and Ella
66. 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
c) When they walk home from the carnival
d) After he tells her about the last time he saw Halle
Answer: b) When he returns to her at the end of the novel
67. What disconcerts Denver as she leaves the Bodwins' house?
a) A figurine of a Black slave
b) Mr. Bodwin's use of racial slurs
c) A collection of books about white superiority
d) The sudden apparition of Baby Suggs's ghost
Answer: a) A figurine of a Black slave
68. Who are the "men without skin"?
a) White men that haunt Beloved's thoughts
b) Sethe's dead ancestors
c) Enslaved men
d) Traumatized ex-slaves who numbed themselves to pain
Answer: a) White men that haunt Beloved's thoughts
69. What is the most shocking of schoolteacher's lessons to Sethe?
a) His lessons on lynching
b) His lessons on forgiveness, generosity, and Christian love
c) His lessons on her animal characteristics
d) His lessons on sexual violation
Answer: c) His lessons on her animal characteristics
70. How does Denver regain her hearing?
a) Baby Suggs blesses her
b) She hears the dead baby's ghost crawling upstairs
c) Beloved tells her about the afterlife
d) Sethe bathes her head in the stream
Answer: b) She hears the dead baby's ghost crawling upstairs
71. After whom is Denver named?
a) The young white girl who delivers her
b) The city of Sethe's birth
c) A kind of wildflower
d) The Denver River
Answer: a) The young white girl who delivers her
72. Where is Denver born?
a) In Baby Suggs's bedroom
b) In a cornfield at Sweet Home
c) In a boat
d) In a hospital in Cincinnati
Answer: c) In a boat
73. Why does Denver stop going to Lady Jones's school?
a) She can't afford tuition
b) A fellow student asks about her mother's past
c) She feels disturbed by Lady Jones's self-loathing
d) Sethe wants her to stay at home
Answer: b) A fellow student asks about her mother's past
74. 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
c) He wants to convince Mrs. Garner he is insane
d) Watching schoolteacher's nephews violate Sethe makes him go mad
Answer: d) Watching schoolteacher's nephews violate Sethe makes him go mad
75. Where does Miss Bodwin want to send Denver?
a) To a job in a shirt factory
b) To Oberlin College
c) To a school for black girls in Pennsylvania
d) To Paris
Answer: b) To Oberlin College
76. Whose spirit does Denver consult before seeking help outside?
a) Baby Ghost's
b) Baby Suggs'
c) Halle's
d) Here Boy's
Answer: b) Baby Suggs'
77. When Beloved disappears, how does the small boy describe the naked woman he saw running through the woods?
a) Fish for hair
b) Fire in her eyes
c) Breathing darkness
d) Singing silently
Answer: a) Fish for hair
78. What disturbs Denver after she gets a job with the Bodwins?
a) Statuette of a slave
b) Beloved at the window
c) Blood-smeared saw
d) Voices in the dark
Answer: a) Statuette of a slave
79. How did the men on the plantation sate their sexual appetite?
a) They had sex with calves
b) They had sex with sheep
c) They had sex with each other
d) They visited prostitutes
Answer: a) They had sex with calves
80. Who is Lady Jones to Denver?
a) Childhood playmate
b) Mother's employer
c) Former teacher
d) Local grocer
Answer: c) Former teacher
81. How has Beloved changed when confronted by the singing women?
a) She is skeletal
b) She is smaller
c) She is white
d) She is pregnant
Answer: d) She is pregnant
82. The novel's central theme is the devastation wrought by ___.
a) Death
b) War
c) Slavery
d) Age
Answer: c) Slavery
83. What does Paul D tell Sethe is her "best thing"?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Herself
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Herself
84. Where do the guards lock Paul D and the other men at night?
a) In toilet cubicles
b) In wooden boxes
c) In coffins
d) In a prison cell
Answer: b) In wooden boxes
85. Who murdered Sethe's first daughter?
a) Schoolteacher
b) Halle
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Sethe
86. Whose life force is Beloved draining?
a) Sethe's
b) Denver's
c) Paul D's
d) Her own
Answer: a) Sethe's
87. Who becomes Sethe's lover?
a) Paul A
b) Paul D
c) Paul F
d) Sixo
Answer: b) Paul D
88. The death of Sethe's daughter and Beloved's exorcism occur due to ___.
a) The slave owners
b) Paul D
c) The black community
d) Denver
Answer: c) The black community
89. Who bought a cologne (perfume) for Denver and Sethe on Christmas?
a) Baby Suggs
b) Miss Bodwin
c) Paul D
d) Mrs Garner
Answer: b) Miss Bodwin
90. Who is the protagonist of the novel?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Sethe
91. Which historical period is the setting for Beloved?
a) The Great Depression
b) The Civil Rights era
c) Reconstruction
d) The Civil War
Answer: c) Reconstruction
92. Who was an agent of the Underground Railroad?
a) Halle
b) Mrs. Garner
c) Stamp Paid
d) Schoolteacher
Answer: c) Stamp Paid
93. How does Sethe handle Beloved's departure?
a) She goes to church
b) She leaves 124
c) She hires a servant
d) She waits to die
Answer: d) She waits to die
94. What religion is referenced throughout the novel?
a) Christianity
b) Judaism
c) Islam
d) Buddhism
Answer: a) Christianity
95. Who hates her own blonde hair?
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Beloved
d) Lady Jones
Answer: d) Lady Jones
96. What is the name of the plantation where Sethe and Paul D first met?
a) Locust Grove
b) Sweet Home
c) Pleasant Prospect
d) Rose Glenn
Answer: b) Sweet Home
97. The townspeople come to see Beloved as a representative of ___.
a) Implacable loneliness
b) Unforgivable violence
c) Racial tension
d) Family connectedness
Answer: a) Implacable loneliness
98. Who does Sethe name her daughter after?
a) Mrs. Garner
b) Halle
c) Amy Denver
d) Ella
Answer: c) Amy Denver
99. The novel ends with the townspeople forgetting which character?
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Baby Suggs
d) Beloved
Answer: d) Beloved
100. How do characters react to supernatural events?
a) Surprise
b) Horror
c) Acceptance
d) Dismissal
Answer: c) Acceptance
SET-II
101. Which is the most dynamic character in Beloved?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Paul D
d) Sethe
Answer: d) Sethe
102. Which historical period is the setting for Beloved?
a) The Great Depression
b) The Civil Rights era
c) Reconstruction
d) The Civil War
Answer: c) Reconstruction
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