Beloved Final Test Combined

Who said "Those white people had taken all I had or dreamed..."

Baby Suggs

Who said "Your love is too thick"

Paul D

Who said "Here in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs, flesh that dances"

Baby Suggs

Who said "You your best thing..."

Paul D

Who said "This love ain't love at all"

Sethe

Who said "You got two feet, Sethe, not four"

Paul D

Who said "There ain't a sweet bunch of colored anywhere than what's right here"

Stamp Paid

Who said "I wanted the reader to be kidnapped, thrown ruthlessly into an alien environment"

Toni Morrison

When Sethe, Denver, and Beloved go ice skating, how many skates does each one have, respectively?

none, one, and two

What has replaced Paul D's heart for much of the novel?

a tobacco tin

Who finally melts the tobacco tin?

Beloved

What is the name of the person who helps Sethe give birth to Denver?

Amy

Who gives Sethe earrings?

Mrs. Garner

What does Denver see when Beloved lets her head fall back?

scars

What is Baby Suggs' form of preaching in the Clearing?

calling

Who is Lady Jones?

a teacher

What kind of Indians help Paul D make it to the North?

Cherokee

What sort of trail do the Cherokees tell Paul D to follow to get to the North?

tree blossoms

Why does Stamp Paid gather berries and bring them to Baby Suggs?

so she'll bake pies

What was Stamp Paid's original name?

Joshua

What does Sixo shout just before heh diies?

Seven-O!

Why does Sixo shout "Seven-O!"?

he's referring to his unborn child

What does Sethe try to do when Mr. Bodwin walks to her front porch?

stab him

What does Sethe attempt to stab Mr. Bodwin with?

an ice pick

Who is the author of Beloved?

Toni Morrison

Who/what is Miister?

a rooster

Who/what is Brother?

a tree at Sweet Home

Beloved is not the beloved child's actual name. How is the ghost's name linked to the child?

it's the inscription on her gravestone

Which of the following is NOT the name of one of Sethe's children?

Martin

What kind of trees does Sethe remember from Sweet Home?

sycamores

What is the correct pronunciation of Sethe?

Seth-uh

What is Baby Suggs' other name?

Jennie

Who tells Paul D about Sethe's murder of the beloved baby?

Stamp Paid

When Paul D is about to confess his infidelity to Sethe, heh says something else/ What is it?

let's have a baby

In what city does the present in the novel take place?

Cincinnati, Ohio

What is Stamp Paid's one privilege he takes for the help he gives people?

he doesn't knock

How many days of happiness did Sethe have before she killed her baby?

28

When Baby Suggs decides "to fix on something harmless in this world," what is it she fixes on?

color

What does Stamp Paid find that finally wears out "his marrow"?

a red ribbon

Which of the following is not the name of a slave at Sweet Home?

- Paul A

- Paul D

- Paul E

- Paul F

Paul E

What are Sethe, Beloved, and Denver doing when "Nobody saw them falling"?

ice skating

a young prostitute

chippy

an early method of preserving fish and meat with salt

brine in the barrel

a darkened storeroom used for holding meats and dairy products away from heat

cold house

a piece of iron put in a slave's mouth to keep him from talking

bit

a common shrub that bears red barries

chokecherry

a line of chained slaves

coffle

reference to Kentucky

bloody side of the Ohio river

the medicinal sweet-smelling juice from an herb

chamomile sap

men with dark wiry hair, especially men

buffalo men

thickened milk or cream

clabber

burlap bag

croaker sack

a ghost

haint

dying and going to heaven

gone to glory

an herb used to make tea

comfry

a crude and dehumanizing term that whites use to refer to the birth of a black baby

foal

flowers that open in the morning and close at night

four o'clocks

a sickness caused by excessive accumulation of fluid

dropsy

a dry measurement equal to four quarts

a half peck

preparing a body for burial

fixing ceremony

a type of candy

horehound

a good quality cotton fabric

lisle

urinate

let water

burp

pass air

an advanced school that prepared teachers for their prrofession

normal school

an African dance

juba

in trouble

in deep water

wild blueberries

huckleberries

a parlor

keeping room

shanty or lean-to

hutch

a bitter herb, often used in literature to symbolize regret

rue

outdoor toilet

privy

staying up all night to watch over the body of someone who has died

setting-up

mispronunciation of patroller or slave catcher

pateroller

turnpike or hihghway

pike

a piece of pork skin used as seasoning while cooking vegetables

rind

a wardrobe used to hold hanging clothes before closets were built in houses

press

a spice taken from the bark of a laurel tree

sassafras

pork fat that has been cooked and hardened into lard

rendered fat

a crude term that was used by white people to describe black children

pickaninny

another name for Quakers, who were usually abolitionists

Society of Friends

a stopping place for travelers

way station

indoor pot used as a toilet, especially at night

slop jar

an early form of the pacifier made by placing sugar inside a piece of cloth

sugar tit

members of the KKK

talking sheets

an unmarried man who did not want to settle down

walking man

the privilege of voting if you had white skin (blacks could not vote)

skin voting

use male slaves as breeders

stud his boys

a bill that required a free state to return a slave to his/her rightful owner

Fugitive Slave Act

The Cherokees told Paul D. that to get to freedom he should

follow the blossoming trees

Denver's safe place was

her Emerald Closet

Which of the following is NOT true about Toni Morrison?

a) she was the first black woman to win the Novel prize for literature

b) she taught literature at several colleges