Beloved was "pregnant" with this in the final scene, something she received from Sethe.
What is sweets?
100
Paul D's prison life took place here -- containing rancid smells and situations, including sexual abuse.
What is Alfred, Georgia?
100
The order of the three speakers in the quote
"I have your milk
I have your smile
I will take care of you"
What is Sethe, Beloved, Denver?
100
Where Beloved's internal monologue takes place
What is the Middle Passage?
200
The color that Baby Suggs was never able to reach.
What is red?
200
What Sethe uses to kill her baby (Beloved) in the shed.
What is a handsaw?
200
The driving force, the final breaking point of Halle.
What is Sethe's mammary rape?
200
The word that would complete the paradoxical epigraph of the novel:
"I will call them my people,
which were not my people;
and her _______,
which was not _______."
What is beloved?
200
The technique that Morrison uses to compare the initial scene with the schoolteacher (when Sethe is in the shed) and the final scene of the novel when Denver is leaving.
What is repetition?
300
Toni Morrison uses this technique when she writes about how Sweet Home had "more pretty trees than any farm around." (Hint: the name Sweet Home is an example of this device as well.)
What is irony?
300
Object that Sethe created for schoolteacher. Bonus 100 for its significance!
What is ink?
300
The instance in which Sethe found herself trying to kill her children/ended up killing Beloved
What is Schoolteacher's Arrival to Baby Suggs' house?
300
The order of the opening sentences of each book of Beloved. (124 was ________.)
What is spiteful, loud, quiet?
300
The city in which the novel takes place.
What is Cincinnati?
400
Paul D's heart is often referred to as a tobacco tin, rusted shut. However when he has an intimate encounter with Beloved, the rust is somehow removed and his tin opens up. He repeats these two words, the contents of his tobacco tin, over and over.
What is red heart?
400
Beloved is often associated with this, starting with her very first appearance (as a human, not a baby ghost) from out of the lake. Her affect upon Sethe in that first meeting demonstrates this.
What is birth?
400
The instance that causes Paul D's memories to resurface. Hint: Beloved is involved! (...Obviously)
What is Beloved's "seduction" of Paul D?
400
"Clever, but schoolteacher beat him [Sixo] anyway to show him that __________ belonged to the ________-- not the _________."
What is definitions, definers, defined?
400
The name of the rooster that Paul D saved and then obsessed over, envying his freedom and power.
What is Mister?
500
The common maternal thread between Sethe, Beloved, and Denver. Is alluded to in the novel as one of the sole objects that could be provided to Sethe's children without consequence.
What is milk?
500
What causes Stamp Paid to escape and to rename himself.
What is When Stamp Paid's wife was the owner's mistress?
500
"Saying more might push them both to a place they couldn’t get back from. He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that ________ buried in his chest where a _____ used to be. Its____ rusted shut."