Authors Background
What year did Toni Morrison quit her job?
1983
1873
1954
1888
1. 1983
124 is haunted by the ghost of
One of Sethe’s daughters
Baby Suggs Spirit
Paul D
One of Sethe’s sons
1. One of Sethe's Daughters
Bonus: what is the daughter's name?
Where was Denver born?
Back at Sweet Home
At 124
In Kentucky
In a boat
4. In a boat
What example is used for Pathos?
1. Sethe saying she will explain to Beloved why she killed her.
2. Sethe sayign how she will explain to Buglar and Howard why she attempted to kill them.
3. Denver saying how Beloved will get killed.
4. Beloved explaining to Sethe she understands why she got killed.
1. Sethe saying she will explakin to beloved why she killed her.
What word does the book end with?
1. Beloved
2. Harmony
3. Mine
4. Love
1. Beloved
What's did Morrison want to focus on in the book?
1. How slaves ran away from slavery
2. ghosts within houses
3. the lifetimes of black people within pre-civil war times
4.mental effect that slavery had on those within it
4. mental effect that slavery had on those within it
What was Baby Suggs to Sethe?
Grandmother
Mother-in-law
Sister
Niece
2. Mother- in- Law
Why did Sethe’s baby die?
Miscarriage
Sethe killed it
Heart attack
Preterm birth
2. Sethe Killed it
What page of the book is Logos found on?
1. Page 252
2. Page 256
3. Page 71
4. Page 187
4. Page 187
How old is Denver?
1.20
2.19
3.18
4.15
3.18
What did Morrison find her being within her life?
1. Happy
2. unlively
3. Content
4. reliable
3. Content
Who is beloved?
A long-lost cousin
Fugitive slave
A ghost of the dead baby
Baby Suggs sister
3. A ghost of the dead baby
Why did Howard and Buglar run away by the time they were 13 years old?
They witnessed something horrible at 124
As soon as merely looking in a mirror shattered it (that was the signal for Buglar); as soon as two tiny hand prints appeared in the cake (that was it for Howard)
Schoolteacher came to 124 to take them back
All of the above
4. All the above
Within the explanation of Pathos, what is the conflict expressed within it?
1. self vs internal self
2. self vs supernatural
3.self vs nature
4. self vs society
1. Self vs internal self
How many kids total did Baby Shuggs have?
1.5 Children
2.3 children
3.1 child
4.8 children
4. 8 children
It is said in the 15th chapter that Baby Shuggs had children by 6 different men and had a total of 8 children.
Who is the author of Beloved?
Stephen King
Mary B. Morrison
Toni Morrison
Margaret Atwood
3. Toni Morrison
Who is Stamp Paid?
1. A helper for Sethe.
2. A guy from Sweet Home
3. Baby Shuggs friend of Baby Shuggs
4. A slave
3. A friend of Baby Shuggs
With the help of who did Sethe escape slavery?
Stamp Paid, Amy, Ella
Mr. Garner, Denver, Beloved
Ella, Paul D, Baby Suggs
All of the above
1. Stamp Paid, Amy, Ella
What page was pathos found on in the book?
1.Page 235
2.Page 236
3.Page 237
4.Page 238
2. Page 236
Where did the novel mostly take place?
Seattle, Washington
Savannah, Georgia
Annapolis, Maryland
Cincinnati, Ohio
4. Cincinnati, Ohio
What did Morrison want to make the slave experience through her writing?
1. Intimate, realistic, and emotional
2. Hard, spiritual, and realistic
3. feministic, life changing, and saddening
4. challenging, transparent , and disturbing
1. intimate, realistic, and emotional
Who did Sethe name her baby after?
Paul D
Halle
Amy
Ella
3. Amy
What convinced Sethe to believe Beloved was her daughter’s ghost?
Beloved had a scar identical to the one that Sethe had
Beloved knew everything about their family
Beloved hummed a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children
Denver confessed to Sethe about what Beloved told her
3. Beloved hummed a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children.
Within the explanation of Kairos, who is Paul D suspicious of?
1. Sethe
2. Stamp Paid
3. Denver
4. Beloved
4. Beloved
How long had Sethe not seen Paul D?
20 years
17 years
18 years
15 years
3. 18 years
When Sethe ran away she was pregnanat with Denver, so now that Denver is 18, that makes it 18 years since Sethe has saw Paul D.