Studied by 1 personWho 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
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