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"
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
103. Why does Stamp Paid feel guilty?
a) For killing his slave owner
b) For knocking over a child on his horse
c) For telling Paul D about Sethe
d) For leaving his wife
Answer: c) For telling Paul D about Sethe
104. What does Paul D do the first night he comes to 124?
a) Exorcises Baby Ghost
b) Kicks out Here Boy
c) Sleeps with Denver
d) Fixes broken furniture
Answer: d) Fixes broken furniture
105. Who is the protagonist of the novel?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Sethe
106. Sethe considers Denver to be a ___ child.
a) Cursed
b) Charmed
c) Worthless
d) Perfect
Answer: b) Charmed
107. According to most characters, what is Beloved?
a) An escaped slave
b) A spirit
c) A con artist
d) A demon
Answer: b) A spirit
108. Which character prompts the most growth in other characters in the novel?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: a) Beloved
109. Which colors symbolize hope, emotion, vitality, and loss?
a) Reds
b) Greens
c) Blues
d) Yellows
Answer: a) Reds
110. 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
111. What is the significance of the number 124?
a) It is the favourite number of Beloved
b) It symbolizes the missing of the third baby, Beloved
c) It is an auspicious number in their culture
d) All the above
Answer: b) It symbolizes the missing of the third baby, Beloved
112. What religion is referenced throughout the novel?
a) Christianity
b) Judaism
c) Islam
d) Buddhism
Answer: a) Christianity
113. Whose freedom does Halle buy with money earned on weekends for five years?
a) His mother’s
b) His sister’s
c) His wife’s
d) His own
Answer: a) His mother’s (Baby Suggs)
114. Who hates her own blonde hair?
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Beloved
d) Lady Jones
Answer: b) Denver
115. What is Sethe’s most striking characteristic?
a) Devotion to her children
b) Fear of the future
c) Love for her husband
d) Strong work ethic
Answer: a) Devotion to her children
116. The novel ends with the townspeople forgetting:
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Baby Suggs
d) Beloved
Answer: d) Beloved
117. Who is planning to send Denver to Oberlin College?
a) Lady Jones
b) Miss Bodwin
c) Stamp Paid
d) Ella
Answer: b) Miss Bodwin
118. What does Sethe use to kill her first daughter?
a) Pillow
b) Saw
c) Poison
d) Gun
Answer: b) Saw
119. The central theme of Beloved is the devastation of:
a) Death
b) War
c) Slavery
d) Age
Answer: c) Slavery
120. Beloved’s disappearance is marked by:
a) A rainstorm
b) A group of singing women
c) Paul D’s return
d) Stamp Paid’s intervention
Answer: b) A group of singing women
121. The “men without skin” represent:
a) White men haunting Beloved
b) Enslaved ancestors
c) Traumatized ex-slaves
d) Sethe’s guilt
Answer: a) White men haunting Beloved
122. Denver regains her hearing when she hears:
a) Baby Suggs’s blessing
b) The baby ghost crawling upstairs
c) Beloved’s stories
d) Sethe’s song
Answer: b) The baby ghost crawling upstairs
123. Sethe’s mother was branded with a:
a) Star
b) Cross and Circle
c) Tree
d) Vine and Thorns
Answer: b) Cross and Circle
124. Denver is Sethe’s:
a) Mother
b) Friend
c) Niece
d) Daughter
Answer: d) Daughter
125. Sethe’s home is haunted by the ghost of:
a) One of Sethe’s daughters
b) Baby Suggs
c) A lynched fugitive
d) A Civil War soldier
Answer: a) One of Sethe’s daughters
126. The novel’s final line emphasizes:
a) “This is not a story to pass on.”
b) “Beloved.”
c) “You your best thing, Sethe.”
d) “124 was spiteful.”
Answer: a) “This is not a story to pass on.”
127. What is the primary setting of Beloved?
a) Post-Civil War Ohio (1870s)
b) 20th-century England
c) A Southern plantation during slavery
d) 21st-century Australia
Answer: a) Post-Civil War Ohio (1870s)
128. Who is the protagonist of Beloved?
a) Denver
b) Sethe
c) Baby Suggs
d) Paul D
Answer: b) Sethe
129. What is the significance of the ghost in the novel?
a) It symbolizes unresolved trauma from slavery
b) It represents Sethe’s guilt over killing her child
c) Both a and b
d) It is a literal supernatural entity
Answer: c) Both a and b
130. What is the relationship between Sethe and Beloved?
a) Mother and daughter
b) Sisters
c) Strangers
d) Both mother and daughter and a manifestation of trauma
Answer: d) Both mother and daughter and a manifestation of trauma
131. What historical context shapes the novel?
a) The Civil Rights Movement
b) The aftermath of slavery in Reconstruction-era America
c) The Great Depression
d) The Revolutionary War
Answer: b) The aftermath of slavery in Reconstruction-era America
132. What role does Baby Suggs play in the story?
a) A former slave turned spiritual leader
b) A white abolitionist
c) Sethe’s biological mother
d) A symbol of hope for the future
Answer: a) A former slave turned spiritual leader
133. How does Paul D relate to Sethe?
a) Her brother
b) A fellow survivor of Sweet Home plantation and her lover
c) A slave catcher
d) A community elder
Answer: b) A fellow survivor of Sweet Home plantation and her lover
134. What is the central theme of Beloved?
a) The American Dream
b) The psychological and generational trauma of slavery
c) Romantic love
d) Religious faith
Answer: b) The psychological and generational trauma of slavery
135. Who is Stamp Paid?
a) A slave owner
b) A former slave who aids escapees
c) Sethe’s father
d) Denver’s teacher
Answer: b) A former slave who aids escapees
136. What does Denver symbolize in the novel?
a) Resilience and the possibility of healing
b) The evils of slavery
c) White supremacy
d) Religious hypocrisy
Answer: a) Resilience and the possibility of healing
137. Why is the narrative structure non-linear?
a) To confuse the reader
b) To mirror the fragmented memories of trauma
c) To focus on action over emotion
d) To mimic historical textbooks
Answer: b) To mirror the fragmented memories of trauma
138. What does the haunting of 124 Bluestone Road represent?
a) A generic ghost story
b) The inescapable legacy of slavery
c) A metaphor for mental illness
d) Superstition in Black communities
Answer: b) The inescapable legacy of slavery
139. How does the novel end?
a) Ambiguously, with Beloved’s disappearance and Sethe’s uncertain future
b) With a clear resolution for all characters
c) With a sequel setup
d) With a romantic reunion
Answer: a) Ambiguously, with Beloved’s disappearance and Sethe’s uncertain future
140. What role does the Black community play?
a) Initially isolates Sethe, later aids in exorcising Beloved
b) Uniformly supportive throughout
c) Antagonistic to freedom
d) Irrelevant to the plot
Answer: a) Initially isolates Sethe, later aids in exorcising Beloved
141. Who is Schoolteacher?
a) A benevolent educator
b) A cruel slave owner who dehumanizes enslaved people
c) Denver’s mentor
d) A Union soldier
Answer: b) A cruel slave owner who dehumanizes enslaved people
142. How does the novel address motherhood?
a) It explores its complexities under slavery, including sacrifice and trauma
b) It idealizes maternal bonds
c) It dismisses motherhood as unimportant
d) It focuses solely on Sethe’s love for Denver
Answer: a) It explores its complexities under slavery, including sacrifice and trauma
143. What does the title Beloved signify?
a) A literal ghost
b) The haunting legacy of slavery and lost love
c) A romantic relationship
d) A religious symbol
Answer: b) The haunting legacy of slavery and lost love
144. The scars on Sethe’s back resemble a:
a) Tree
b) Bird
c) Cross
d) Ghost
Answer: a) Tree
145. How does Paul D’s “tobacco tin” heart symbolize his trauma?
a) He locks away his emotions to survive
b) It signifies his greed
c) It represents his love for Sethe
d) It is a literal object from Sweet Home
Answer: a) He locks away his emotions to survive
146. What does Beloved’s disappearance symbolize?
a) The end of slavery
b) The unresolved nature of historical trauma
c) Sethe’s redemption
d) Denver’s maturity
Answer: b) The unresolved nature of historical trauma
147. How does Morrison use symbolism in the novel?
a) To connect personal trauma to collective history
b) For decorative prose
c) To obscure the plot
d) Solely for supernatural elements
Answer: a) To connect personal trauma to collective history
148. What does the chokecherry tree scarring Sethe’s back represent?
a) The brutality of slavery and growth through pain
b) A literal tree from Sweet Home
c) Sethe’s love for nature
d) Denver’s innocence
Answer: a) The brutality of slavery and growth through pain
149. How does the novel explore freedom?
a) As an incomplete struggle beyond physical emancipation
b) As a guaranteed right post-slavery
c) Solely through legal battles
d) Through Paul D’s wealth
Answer: a) As an incomplete struggle beyond physical emancipation
150. What is the significance of Beloved’s final words: “This is not a story to pass on”?
a) A warning about forgetting history
b) A call to action for abolition
c) A celebration of survival
d) A critique of oral traditions
Answer: a) A warning about forgetting history
151. Sethe escaped from a farm called:
a) High Hill
b) Old Mill
c) Wuthering Heights
d) Sweet Home
Answer: d) Sweet Home
152. The house where Sethe and Denver live is referred to as:
a) 228
b) 123
c) 321
d) 124
Answer: d) 124
153. Sethe paid for the word “Beloved” on her child’s tombstone by:
a) Mending clothes
b) Having sex with the stone carver
c) Borrowing money from the church
d) Selling jewelry
Answer: b) Having sex with the stone carver
154. Denver chooses the round empty place surrounded by five boxwood bushes and names it as:
a) Emerald Closet
b) Chokecherry tree
c) Diamond Closet
d) Golden Threshold
Answer: a) Emerald Closet
155. What was the first thing Denver heard after she went deaf?
a) Paul D laughing
b) Beloved crying
c) A cat whining
d) The baby’s ghost climbing the stairs
Answer: d) The baby’s ghost climbing the stairs
156. What does Sethe say Paul D is not allowed to do?
a) Cook
b) Yell or punish her daughter
c) Enter her bedroom
d) Sleep in the house
Answer: b) Yell or punish her daughter
157. Paul D was imprisoned in:
a) Alfred, Georgia
b) New York, New York
c) Augustine, Florida
d) Dayton, Ohio
Answer: a) Alfred, Georgia
158. Baby Suggs was Sethe’s:
a) Mother
b) Aunt
c) Mother-in-law
d) Grandmother
Answer: c) Mother-in-law
159. The schoolteacher represents:
a) Christian charity
b) The kindness of slaveowners
c) Political dissent
d) The abuse of science to justify slavery
Answer: d) The abuse of science to justify slavery
160. Sethe escaped slavery with the help of:
a) Amy Denver
b) Stamp Paid
c) Ella
d) All of these people
Answer: d) All of these people
161. Amy Denver sought carmine velvet in:
a) New York
b) Boston
c) Toronto
d) Atlanta
Answer: b) Boston
162. Shortly after arriving, Paul D takes Sethe and Denver to a:
a) Casino
b) Indian reservation
c) Carnival
d) Museum
Answer: c) Carnival
163. Upon first seeing Beloved, Sethe feels:
a) An urge to hit her
b) An uncontrollable urge to urinate
c) Burning pain in her scars
d) Sudden fatigue
Answer: b) An uncontrollable urge to urinate
164. Beloved most convincingly represents:
a) African tribal culture
b) The joys of motherhood
c) The pain of the past and slavery’s legacy
d) Christian faith
Answer: c) The pain of the past and slavery’s legacy
165. Sethe killed her baby to:
a) End her suffering
b) Prevent her from being returned to slavery
c) Punish the schoolteacher
d) Appease the ghost of 124
Answer: b) Prevent her from being returned to slavery
166. Baby Suggs urged former slaves to:
a) Fight the Klan
b) Reclaim self-love and overcome self-loathing
c) Become decadent
d) Learn to read
Answer: b) Reclaim self-love and overcome self-loathing
167. After Sethe’s tragedy, Baby Suggs:
a) Became embittered and stopped preaching
b) Organized militias
c) Fled to Canada
d) Taught literacy
Answer: a) Became embittered and stopped preaching
168. The schoolteacher found Sethe:
a) Before she reached the North
b) 28 days after arriving in Cincinnati
c) 3 years after arriving
d) 1 year after arriving
Answer: b) 28 days after arriving in Cincinnati
169. Paul D’s heart is metaphorically a:
a) Ball of stone
b) Rusted tobacco tin
c) Empty void
d) Savage beast
Answer: b) Rusted tobacco tin
170. Sethe’s most horrifying experience was hearing the schoolteacher:
a) List her traits as “human” vs. “supernatural”
b) List her traits as “human” vs. “animal”
c) Analyze her psyche using Freudian terms
d) Critique her femininity
Answer: b) List her traits as “human” vs. “animal”
171. Sethe and Denver live in:
a) Pennsylvania
b) Missouri
c) Ohio
d) Alabama
Answer: c) Ohio
172. Beloved is:
a) The ghost of Sethe’s dead child
b) A con artist
c) A mental hospital escapee
d) A fugitive slave
Answer: a) The ghost of Sethe’s dead child
173. Baby Suggs’ preaching focused on:
a) Loving one’s body and self
b) Political rebellion
c) Religious dogma
d) Economic independence
Answer: a) Loving one’s body and self
174. Sethe’s reaction to Beloved symbolizes:
a) Rage at the past
b) Childbirth (via the urge to urinate)
c) Physical pain
d) Weariness of life
Answer: b) Childbirth (via the urge to urinate)
175. The farm Sweet Home was located in:
a) South Carolina
b) Georgia
c) Kentucky
d) Kansas
Answer: c) Kentucky
176. What does Denver ask Beloved after Beloved pulls out her tooth?
a) If she can make a wish
b) If she can give her the tooth
c) To do it again
d) If she is hurt
Answer: d) If she is hurt
177. What did the schoolteacher tell Mr. Garner’s slaves?
a) That they may as well be dead
b) That they were free
c) That they were tigers
d) That they weren’t men
Answer: d) That they weren’t men
178. Why did Halle break down?
a) He saw Sethe trying to kill their children
b) He saw Sethe caressing a white boy
c) He saw Sethe being beaten
d) He saw Sethe being raped in the barn
Answer: d) He saw Sethe being raped in the barn
179. What does Paul D presume Beloved is?
a) A mental patient
b) An escaped slave
c) A ghost
d) A prophet
Answer: b) An escaped slave
180. What does Beloved do while sitting in the kitchen with Denver?
a) She pulls off a fingernail
b) She removes her hair
c) She pulls out a tooth
d) She takes out an eye
Answer: c) She pulls out a tooth
181. What happens as Denver tells the story of her birth?
a) Beloved faints
b) Beloved falls into a trance
c) It comes alive before her eyes
d) Her mother begins to scream
Answer: c) It comes alive before her eyes
182. What did Sethe do to her baby?
a) Hung her
b) Cut her throat
c) Drowned her
d) Cut out her eyes
Answer: b) Cut her throat
183. What is the name of Sethe’s dog?
a) Abe
b) Sinatra
c) Badger
d) Here Boy
Answer: d) Here Boy
184. Why could Paul D not help his friend?
a) He was not there
b) He was wearing a bit in his mouth
c) He was chained up
d) He was being beaten
Answer: b) He was wearing a bit in his mouth
185. The place where Baby Suggs preaches is called:
a) The Meadow
b) The Clearing
c) The Grove
d) The Chapel
Answer: b) The Clearing
186. Who is referred to as the "nigger with the flower in her hat"?
a) Sethe
b) Baby Suggs
c) Denver
d) Ella
Answer: b) Baby Suggs
187. What is the opening line of Beloved?
a) "124 was spiteful, full of baby’s venom."
b) "It was a bright cold day in April."
c) "Call me Ishmael."
d) "Slavery was a long time ago."
Answer: a) "124 was spiteful, full of baby’s venom."
188. The disappearance of Here Boy (the dog) symbolizes:
a) The arrival of the ghost
b) Sethe’s guilt
c) Denver’s loneliness
d) Paul D’s fear
Answer: a) The arrival of the ghost
189. What is ‘Brother’ in Beloved?
a) A tree in Sweet Home where Paul D rests
b) Sethe’s son
c) A nickname for Stamp Paid
d) A religious figure
Answer: a) A tree in Sweet Home where Paul D rests
190. What is the name of the "thirty miles woman"?
a) Amy Denver
b) Patsy
c) Ella
d) Lady Jones
Answer: b) Patsy
191. Baby Suggs had ______ children from ______ fathers.
a) 6, 4
b) 8, 6
c) 5, 3
d) 7, 5
Answer: b) 8, 6
192. Sethe received a pair of crystal earrings from:
a) Mrs. Garner
b) Baby Suggs
c) Amy Denver
d) Lady Jones
Answer: a) Mrs. Garner
193. Who are the "two boys with mossy teeth"?
a) Schoolteacher’s nephews
b) Paul D’s brothers
c) Denver’s friends
d) Fugitive slaves
Answer: a) Schoolteacher’s nephews
194. What is the name of the rooster at Sweet Home?
a) Captain
b) Mister
c) General
d) King
Answer: b) Mister
195. Who says: “Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.”?
a) Sethe
b) Baby Suggs
c) Paul D
d) Stamp Paid
Answer: b) Baby Suggs
196. Who asks Denver: “Didn’t your mother get locked away for murder? Wasn’t you in there with her when she went?”?
a) Nelson Lord
b) Lady Jones
c) Beloved
d) Miss Bodwin
Answer: a) Nelson Lord
197. Who are the abolitionists in the novel?
a) Mr. and Miss Bodwin
b) Mr and Mrs Garners
c) Stamp Paid and Ella
d) Amy Denver and Lady Jones
Answer: a) Mr. and Miss. Bodwin
198. After Sethe’s arrival at 124, Stamp Paid brought two buckets full of:
a) Blackberries
b) Apples
c) Cornmeal
d) Flowers
Answer: a) Blackberries
199. Who tells Sethe, “You have two legs and not four”?
a) Paul D
b) Baby Suggs
c) Denver
d) Stamp Paid
Answer: a) Paul D
200. “Love is or love ain’t. Thin love ain’t no love at all.” Who says this to whom?
a) Sethe to Paul D
b) Baby Suggs to Sethe
c) Paul D to Denver
d) Beloved to Denver
Answer: a) Sethe to Paul D
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
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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
103. Why does Stamp Paid feel guilty?
a) For killing his slave owner
b) For knocking over a child on his horse
c) For telling Paul D about Sethe
d) For leaving his wife
Answer: c) For telling Paul D about Sethe
104. What does Paul D do the first night he comes to 124?
a) Exorcises Baby Ghost
b) Kicks out Here Boy
c) Sleeps with Denver
d) Fixes broken furniture
Answer: d) Fixes broken furniture
105. Who is the protagonist of the novel?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: c) Sethe
106. Sethe considers Denver to be a ___ child.
a) Cursed
b) Charmed
c) Worthless
d) Perfect
Answer: b) Charmed
107. According to most characters, what is Beloved?
a) An escaped slave
b) A spirit
c) A con artist
d) A demon
Answer: b) A spirit
108. Which character prompts the most growth in other characters in the novel?
a) Beloved
b) Denver
c) Sethe
d) Paul D
Answer: a) Beloved
109. Which colors symbolize hope, emotion, vitality, and loss?
a) Reds
b) Greens
c) Blues
d) Yellows
Answer: a) Reds
110. 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
111. What is the significance of the number 124?
a) It is the favourite number of Beloved
b) It symbolizes the missing of the third baby, Beloved
c) It is an auspicious number in their culture
d) All the above
Answer: b) It symbolizes the missing of the third baby, Beloved
112. What religion is referenced throughout the novel?
a) Christianity
b) Judaism
c) Islam
d) Buddhism
Answer: a) Christianity
113. Whose freedom does Halle buy with money earned on weekends for five years?
a) His mother’s
b) His sister’s
c) His wife’s
d) His own
Answer: a) His mother’s (Baby Suggs)
114. Who hates her own blonde hair?
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Beloved
d) Lady Jones
Answer: b) Denver
115. What is Sethe’s most striking characteristic?
a) Devotion to her children
b) Fear of the future
c) Love for her husband
d) Strong work ethic
Answer: a) Devotion to her children
116. The novel ends with the townspeople forgetting:
a) Sethe
b) Denver
c) Baby Suggs
d) Beloved
Answer: d) Beloved
117. Who is planning to send Denver to Oberlin College?
a) Lady Jones
b) Miss Bodwin
c) Stamp Paid
d) Ella
Answer: b) Miss Bodwin
118. What does Sethe use to kill her first daughter?
a) Pillow
b) Saw
c) Poison
d) Gun
Answer: b) Saw
119. The central theme of Beloved is the devastation of:
a) Death
b) War
c) Slavery
d) Age
Answer: c) Slavery
120. Beloved’s disappearance is marked by:
a) A rainstorm
b) A group of singing women
c) Paul D’s return
d) Stamp Paid’s intervention
Answer: b) A group of singing women
121. The “men without skin” represent:
a) White men haunting Beloved
b) Enslaved ancestors
c) Traumatized ex-slaves
d) Sethe’s guilt
Answer: a) White men haunting Beloved
122. Denver regains her hearing when she hears:
a) Baby Suggs’s blessing
b) The baby ghost crawling upstairs
c) Beloved’s stories
d) Sethe’s song
Answer: b) The baby ghost crawling upstairs
123. Sethe’s mother was branded with a:
a) Star
b) Cross and Circle
c) Tree
d) Vine and Thorns
Answer: b) Cross and Circle
124. Denver is Sethe’s:
a) Mother
b) Friend
c) Niece
d) Daughter
Answer: d) Daughter
125. Sethe’s home is haunted by the ghost of:
a) One of Sethe’s daughters
b) Baby Suggs
c) A lynched fugitive
d) A Civil War soldier
Answer: a) One of Sethe’s daughters
126. The novel’s final line emphasizes:
a) “This is not a story to pass on.”
b) “Beloved.”
c) “You your best thing, Sethe.”
d) “124 was spiteful.”
Answer: a) “This is not a story to pass on.”
127. What is the primary setting of Beloved?
a) Post-Civil War Ohio (1870s)
b) 20th-century England
c) A Southern plantation during slavery
d) 21st-century Australia
Answer: a) Post-Civil War Ohio (1870s)
128. Who is the protagonist of Beloved?
a) Denver
b) Sethe
c) Baby Suggs
d) Paul D
Answer: b) Sethe
129. What is the significance of the ghost in the novel?
a) It symbolizes unresolved trauma from slavery
b) It represents Sethe’s guilt over killing her child
c) Both a and b
d) It is a literal supernatural entity
Answer: c) Both a and b
130. What is the relationship between Sethe and Beloved?
a) Mother and daughter
b) Sisters
c) Strangers
d) Both mother and daughter and a manifestation of trauma
Answer: d) Both mother and daughter and a manifestation of trauma
131. What historical context shapes the novel?
a) The Civil Rights Movement
b) The aftermath of slavery in Reconstruction-era America
c) The Great Depression
d) The Revolutionary War
Answer: b) The aftermath of slavery in Reconstruction-era America
132. What role does Baby Suggs play in the story?
a) A former slave turned spiritual leader
b) A white abolitionist
c) Sethe’s biological mother
d) A symbol of hope for the future
Answer: a) A former slave turned spiritual leader
133. How does Paul D relate to Sethe?
a) Her brother
b) A fellow survivor of Sweet Home plantation and her lover
c) A slave catcher
d) A community elder
Answer: b) A fellow survivor of Sweet Home plantation and her lover
134. What is the central theme of Beloved?
a) The American Dream
b) The psychological and generational trauma of slavery
c) Romantic love
d) Religious faith
Answer: b) The psychological and generational trauma of slavery
135. Who is Stamp Paid?
a) A slave owner
b) A former slave who aids escapees
c) Sethe’s father
d) Denver’s teacher
Answer: b) A former slave who aids escapees
136. What does Denver symbolize in the novel?
a) Resilience and the possibility of healing
b) The evils of slavery
c) White supremacy
d) Religious hypocrisy
Answer: a) Resilience and the possibility of healing
137. Why is the narrative structure non-linear?
a) To confuse the reader
b) To mirror the fragmented memories of trauma
c) To focus on action over emotion
d) To mimic historical textbooks
Answer: b) To mirror the fragmented memories of trauma
138. What does the haunting of 124 Bluestone Road represent?
a) A generic ghost story
b) The inescapable legacy of slavery
c) A metaphor for mental illness
d) Superstition in Black communities
Answer: b) The inescapable legacy of slavery
139. How does the novel end?
a) Ambiguously, with Beloved’s disappearance and Sethe’s uncertain future
b) With a clear resolution for all characters
c) With a sequel setup
d) With a romantic reunion
Answer: a) Ambiguously, with Beloved’s disappearance and Sethe’s uncertain future
140. What role does the Black community play?
a) Initially isolates Sethe, later aids in exorcising Beloved
b) Uniformly supportive throughout
c) Antagonistic to freedom
d) Irrelevant to the plot
Answer: a) Initially isolates Sethe, later aids in exorcising Beloved
141. Who is Schoolteacher?
a) A benevolent educator
b) A cruel slave owner who dehumanizes enslaved people
c) Denver’s mentor
d) A Union soldier
Answer: b) A cruel slave owner who dehumanizes enslaved people
142. How does the novel address motherhood?
a) It explores its complexities under slavery, including sacrifice and trauma
b) It idealizes maternal bonds
c) It dismisses motherhood as unimportant
d) It focuses solely on Sethe’s love for Denver
Answer: a) It explores its complexities under slavery, including sacrifice and trauma
143. What does the title Beloved signify?
a) A literal ghost
b) The haunting legacy of slavery and lost love
c) A romantic relationship
d) A religious symbol
Answer: b) The haunting legacy of slavery and lost love
144. The scars on Sethe’s back resemble a:
a) Tree
b) Bird
c) Cross
d) Ghost
Answer: a) Tree
145. How does Paul D’s “tobacco tin” heart symbolize his trauma?
a) He locks away his emotions to survive
b) It signifies his greed
c) It represents his love for Sethe
d) It is a literal object from Sweet Home
Answer: a) He locks away his emotions to survive
146. What does Beloved’s disappearance symbolize?
a) The end of slavery
b) The unresolved nature of historical trauma
c) Sethe’s redemption
d) Denver’s maturity
Answer: b) The unresolved nature of historical trauma
147. How does Morrison use symbolism in the novel?
a) To connect personal trauma to collective history
b) For decorative prose
c) To obscure the plot
d) Solely for supernatural elements
Answer: a) To connect personal trauma to collective history
148. What does the chokecherry tree scarring Sethe’s back represent?
a) The brutality of slavery and growth through pain
b) A literal tree from Sweet Home
c) Sethe’s love for nature
d) Denver’s innocence
Answer: a) The brutality of slavery and growth through pain
149. How does the novel explore freedom?
a) As an incomplete struggle beyond physical emancipation
b) As a guaranteed right post-slavery
c) Solely through legal battles
d) Through Paul D’s wealth
Answer: a) As an incomplete struggle beyond physical emancipation
150. What is the significance of Beloved’s final words: “This is not a story to pass on”?
a) A warning about forgetting history
b) A call to action for abolition
c) A celebration of survival
d) A critique of oral traditions
Answer: a) A warning about forgetting history
151. Sethe escaped from a farm called:
a) High Hill
b) Old Mill
c) Wuthering Heights
d) Sweet Home
Answer: d) Sweet Home
152. The house where Sethe and Denver live is referred to as:
a) 228
b) 123
c) 321
d) 124
Answer: d) 124
153. Sethe paid for the word “Beloved” on her child’s tombstone by:
a) Mending clothes
b) Having sex with the stone carver
c) Borrowing money from the church
d) Selling jewelry
Answer: b) Having sex with the stone carver
154. Denver chooses the round empty place surrounded by five boxwood bushes and names it as:
a) Emerald Closet
b) Chokecherry tree
c) Diamond Closet
d) Golden Threshold
Answer: a) Emerald Closet
155. What was the first thing Denver heard after she went deaf?
a) Paul D laughing
b) Beloved crying
c) A cat whining
d) The baby’s ghost climbing the stairs
Answer: d) The baby’s ghost climbing the stairs
156. What does Sethe say Paul D is not allowed to do?
a) Cook
b) Yell or punish her daughter
c) Enter her bedroom
d) Sleep in the house
Answer: b) Yell or punish her daughter
157. Paul D was imprisoned in:
a) Alfred, Georgia
b) New York, New York
c) Augustine, Florida
d) Dayton, Ohio
Answer: a) Alfred, Georgia
158. Baby Suggs was Sethe’s:
a) Mother
b) Aunt
c) Mother-in-law
d) Grandmother
Answer: c) Mother-in-law
159. The schoolteacher represents:
a) Christian charity
b) The kindness of slaveowners
c) Political dissent
d) The abuse of science to justify slavery
Answer: d) The abuse of science to justify slavery
160. Sethe escaped slavery with the help of:
a) Amy Denver
b) Stamp Paid
c) Ella
d) All of these people
Answer: d) All of these people
161. Amy Denver sought carmine velvet in:
a) New York
b) Boston
c) Toronto
d) Atlanta
Answer: b) Boston
162. Shortly after arriving, Paul D takes Sethe and Denver to a:
a) Casino
b) Indian reservation
c) Carnival
d) Museum
Answer: c) Carnival
163. Upon first seeing Beloved, Sethe feels:
a) An urge to hit her
b) An uncontrollable urge to urinate
c) Burning pain in her scars
d) Sudden fatigue
Answer: b) An uncontrollable urge to urinate
164. Beloved most convincingly represents:
a) African tribal culture
b) The joys of motherhood
c) The pain of the past and slavery’s legacy
d) Christian faith
Answer: c) The pain of the past and slavery’s legacy
165. Sethe killed her baby to:
a) End her suffering
b) Prevent her from being returned to slavery
c) Punish the schoolteacher
d) Appease the ghost of 124
Answer: b) Prevent her from being returned to slavery
166. Baby Suggs urged former slaves to:
a) Fight the Klan
b) Reclaim self-love and overcome self-loathing
c) Become decadent
d) Learn to read
Answer: b) Reclaim self-love and overcome self-loathing
167. After Sethe’s tragedy, Baby Suggs:
a) Became embittered and stopped preaching
b) Organized militias
c) Fled to Canada
d) Taught literacy
Answer: a) Became embittered and stopped preaching
168. The schoolteacher found Sethe:
a) Before she reached the North
b) 28 days after arriving in Cincinnati
c) 3 years after arriving
d) 1 year after arriving
Answer: b) 28 days after arriving in Cincinnati
169. Paul D’s heart is metaphorically a:
a) Ball of stone
b) Rusted tobacco tin
c) Empty void
d) Savage beast
Answer: b) Rusted tobacco tin
170. Sethe’s most horrifying experience was hearing the schoolteacher:
a) List her traits as “human” vs. “supernatural”
b) List her traits as “human” vs. “animal”
c) Analyze her psyche using Freudian terms
d) Critique her femininity
Answer: b) List her traits as “human” vs. “animal”
171. Sethe and Denver live in:
a) Pennsylvania
b) Missouri
c) Ohio
d) Alabama
Answer: c) Ohio
172. Beloved is:
a) The ghost of Sethe’s dead child
b) A con artist
c) A mental hospital escapee
d) A fugitive slave
Answer: a) The ghost of Sethe’s dead child
173. Baby Suggs’ preaching focused on:
a) Loving one’s body and self
b) Political rebellion
c) Religious dogma
d) Economic independence
Answer: a) Loving one’s body and self
174. Sethe’s reaction to Beloved symbolizes:
a) Rage at the past
b) Childbirth (via the urge to urinate)
c) Physical pain
d) Weariness of life
Answer: b) Childbirth (via the urge to urinate)
175. The farm Sweet Home was located in:
a) South Carolina
b) Georgia
c) Kentucky
d) Kansas
Answer: c) Kentucky
176. What does Denver ask Beloved after Beloved pulls out her tooth?
a) If she can make a wish
b) If she can give her the tooth
c) To do it again
d) If she is hurt
Answer: d) If she is hurt
177. What did the schoolteacher tell Mr. Garner’s slaves?
a) That they may as well be dead
b) That they were free
c) That they were tigers
d) That they weren’t men
Answer: d) That they weren’t men
178. Why did Halle break down?
a) He saw Sethe trying to kill their children
b) He saw Sethe caressing a white boy
c) He saw Sethe being beaten
d) He saw Sethe being raped in the barn
Answer: d) He saw Sethe being raped in the barn
179. What does Paul D presume Beloved is?
a) A mental patient
b) An escaped slave
c) A ghost
d) A prophet
Answer: b) An escaped slave
180. What does Beloved do while sitting in the kitchen with Denver?
a) She pulls off a fingernail
b) She removes her hair
c) She pulls out a tooth
d) She takes out an eye
Answer: c) She pulls out a tooth
181. What happens as Denver tells the story of her birth?
a) Beloved faints
b) Beloved falls into a trance
c) It comes alive before her eyes
d) Her mother begins to scream
Answer: c) It comes alive before her eyes
182. What did Sethe do to her baby?
a) Hung her
b) Cut her throat
c) Drowned her
d) Cut out her eyes
Answer: b) Cut her throat
183. What is the name of Sethe’s dog?
a) Abe
b) Sinatra
c) Badger
d) Here Boy
Answer: d) Here Boy
184. Why could Paul D not help his friend?
a) He was not there
b) He was wearing a bit in his mouth
c) He was chained up
d) He was being beaten
Answer: b) He was wearing a bit in his mouth
185. The place where Baby Suggs preaches is called:
a) The Meadow
b) The Clearing
c) The Grove
d) The Chapel
Answer: b) The Clearing
186. Who is referred to as the "nigger with the flower in her hat"?
a) Sethe
b) Baby Suggs
c) Denver
d) Ella
Answer: b) Baby Suggs
187. What is the opening line of Beloved?
a) "124 was spiteful, full of baby’s venom."
b) "It was a bright cold day in April."
c) "Call me Ishmael."
d) "Slavery was a long time ago."
Answer: a) "124 was spiteful, full of baby’s venom."
188. The disappearance of Here Boy (the dog) symbolizes:
a) The arrival of the ghost
b) Sethe’s guilt
c) Denver’s loneliness
d) Paul D’s fear
Answer: a) The arrival of the ghost
189. What is ‘Brother’ in Beloved?
a) A tree in Sweet Home where Paul D rests
b) Sethe’s son
c) A nickname for Stamp Paid
d) A religious figure
Answer: a) A tree in Sweet Home where Paul D rests
190. What is the name of the "thirty miles woman"?
a) Amy Denver
b) Patsy
c) Ella
d) Lady Jones
Answer: b) Patsy
191. Baby Suggs had ______ children from ______ fathers.
a) 6, 4
b) 8, 6
c) 5, 3
d) 7, 5
Answer: b) 8, 6
192. Sethe received a pair of crystal earrings from:
a) Mrs. Garner
b) Baby Suggs
c) Amy Denver
d) Lady Jones
Answer: a) Mrs. Garner
193. Who are the "two boys with mossy teeth"?
a) Schoolteacher’s nephews
b) Paul D’s brothers
c) Denver’s friends
d) Fugitive slaves
Answer: a) Schoolteacher’s nephews
194. What is the name of the rooster at Sweet Home?
a) Captain
b) Mister
c) General
d) King
Answer: b) Mister
195. Who says: “Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.”?
a) Sethe
b) Baby Suggs
c) Paul D
d) Stamp Paid
Answer: b) Baby Suggs
196. Who asks Denver: “Didn’t your mother get locked away for murder? Wasn’t you in there with her when she went?”?
a) Nelson Lord
b) Lady Jones
c) Beloved
d) Miss Bodwin
Answer: a) Nelson Lord
197. Who are the abolitionists in the novel?
a) Mr. and Miss Bodwin
b) Mr and Mrs Garners
c) Stamp Paid and Ella
d) Amy Denver and Lady Jones
Answer: a) Mr. and Miss. Bodwin
198. After Sethe’s arrival at 124, Stamp Paid brought two buckets full of:
a) Blackberries
b) Apples
c) Cornmeal
d) Flowers
Answer: a) Blackberries
199. Who tells Sethe, “You have two legs and not four”?
a) Paul D
b) Baby Suggs
c) Denver
d) Stamp Paid
Answer: a) Paul D
200. “Love is or love ain’t. Thin love ain’t no love at all.” Who says this to whom?
a) Sethe to Paul D
b) Baby Suggs to Sethe
c) Paul D to Denver
d) Beloved to Denver
Answer: a) Sethe to Paul D
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