Quotation Identification
Places
People
The Reading Quiz
Symbols
100
“ ‘Red heart. Red heart. Red heart’ “ (138).
Paul D
100
Sweet Home is located in this state (107).
Kentucky
100
Her movement is often described as floating or hovering (68).
Beloved
100
This is the place where Baby Suggs preaches to the local community (101-104).
the Clearing
100
Sethe laments the taking of this substance from her (19, 83).
milk
200
“ ‘What’s velvet?’ ” (92).
Sethe
200
Mr. Garner labels this place “ ‘a city of water’ ” (168).
Cincinnati
200
He stops speaking English because, “there was no future in it” (30).
Sixo
200
These are the animals that Denver and Beloved watch copulating by the stream (124).
turtles
200
These are painted white in 124 to help the baby see them (188).
stairs
300
“ ‘Mrs. Baby Suggs ain’t no name for a free Negro’ ” (167).
Mr. Garner
300
The first sentences of each section of Beloved describe 124 as these three adjectives (3, 199, 281).
spiteful, loud, quiet
300
This “Negro girl” works for the Bodwins and helps both Sethe and Denver in their times of need (168-170, 298-300).
Janey
300
This person asks Denver a question that results in her discovering her mother’s violent past (120-121).
Nelson Lord
300
Stamp Paid goes through great difficulty to collect two buckets of these (160, 183-4, 200).
blackberries
400
“ ‘Did you butcher it?’ ” (224).
schoolteacher
400
Sethe crosses this river on her way to freedom (106-107).
The Ohio River
400
They run away from 124 after Sethe almost kills them (22-3).
Bugler and Howard
400
This person declares, “There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks” (105).
Baby Suggs
400
Amy Denver compares the scars on Sethe’s back to this type of tree (18, 93).
chokecherry
500
“ ‘If anybody was to ask me I’d say, “Don’t love nothing” ‘ ” (108).
Ella
500
This town in Georgia is where Paul D is sent to prison for trying to kill a man named Brandywine (125-133).
Alfred
500
These characters are labeled as the four horsemen as the start of Chapter Sixteen (175).
schoolteacher, nephew, slave catcher, sheriff
500
This is what Beloved’s breath smells like after Sethe chokes (115).
new milk
500
This is said to spring up between Paul D and Sethe after the former declares, “ ‘You got two feet, Sethe, not four’ ” (194).
forest
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