VG3 - D-test Literature-Beloved P1 -2223

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D-test VG3

Beloved 

2223

Instructions:

There will be multiple-choice questions, true-false questions, gap-filling, open questions, and matching questions. This D-test will consist of 30 questions. You have +/- 45 minutes to complete this D-test.

Read the question completely, then answer it. Open questions must be answered in ENGLISH!

Please do not use your book, notes, or any other websites. 

Warming up:
Briefly explain what the color red symbolizes in Beloved and how it relates to Paul D. in the book. Name as many as possible.

Where is 124 Bluestone Road located?

1. Georgia
2. Kentucky
3. Ohio
4. Boston

Why did Howard and Buglar flee their own family at 124?

1. Baby Suggs had kicked them out of the house.
2. When schoolteacher and the slave catchers arrived, they escaped out of the back door.
3. They left because of Paul D.
4. The haunting presence of Sethe’s dead baby had disrupted any kind of ideal home,

Who tells Sethe that her scars resemble a chokecherry tree?

1. Amy Denver
2. Baby Suggs
3. Paul D.
4. Beloved

Where does Denver habitually go to find solitude and solace?

1. Church
2. A grove she calls her emerald closet
3. the bridge
4. the Clearing

What is Beloved doing when Sethe first sees her?

1. Swimming in a stream
2. Walking home from the carnival with Denver
3. Trembling in the woodshed
4. Sleeping near the steps of 124

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

1. Amy, Stamp Paid, and Lady Jones
2. Paul D, Stamp Paid, and Halle
3. Paul D, Paul F, and Paul A
4. Amy, Stamp Paid, and Ella

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

1. He wants to soothe his skin after imagining Sixo’s burning
2. Watching schoolteacher’s nephews violate Sethe makes him go mad
3. He wants to convince Mrs. Garner he is insane so she will free him
4. Schoolteacher forces him to do it as part of an “experiment”

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

1. Baby Suggs’s ghost
2. The malevolent energy of the community
3. Schoolteacher
4. Beloved

Which character thinks you should love everything just a little bit, so when someone dies you still have some love left?

1. Sethe
2. Paul D.
3. Denver
4. Baby Suggs

How is Paul D's heart described?

1. A burning ember
2. A steel bear trap
3. A twisted briar
4. A rusted tobacco tin

Match the quotes 

with the character

Sethe

Beloved

Baby Suggs

Paul D. 

""What kind of evil you got in here?"

They took my milk

What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children.

“Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world.”

“I told you, I’m a walking man, but I been in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life.”

"This place. I was looking for this place I could be in."

"She told me. When I was at the bridge she told me."

Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them.... No, they don’t love your mouth. You got to love it. 

Amy Denver was also a slave.

1. True
2. False

Sethe escaped Sweet Home at the same time she was pregnant with Beloved.

1. True
2. False

Sethe's mother left a mark on her face so Sethe can someday recognize her.

1. True
2. False

Paul D. enjoyed the effect Beloved had in the house.

1. True
2. False

Counting on the stillness of her own soul, she had forgotten the other one: the soul of her baby girl. Who would have thought that a little old baby could (1) ....... so much rage?

1. endure
2. give
3. harbor
4. inflict

She might be hurrying across a field, running practically, to get to the pump quickly and rinse the (2) ..... sap from her legs. Nothing else would be in her mind.

1. apple
2. chamomile
3. pine
4. orange

Her three children she had already packed into a wagonload of others in a caravan of Negroes crossing the river. They were to be left with Halle's mother near Cincinnati. Even in that tiny shack, leaning so close to the fire you could smell the heat in her dress, her eyes did not pick up a flicker of light. They were like two wells into which he had trouble (3).

1. gazing
2. observing
3. seeing
4. understanding

"I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms. No more running--from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this earth. I took one journey and I paid for the (4) ....., but let me tell you something, Paul D. Garner: it cost too much! Do you hear me?

1. suffering
2. price
3. trip
4. ticket

This D-test was helpful for my learning process.

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