Beloved: Section 1, Chapter 9

Why does Sethe want to go to the Clearing?

• To search for Baby Suggs's ghost and find comfort and clarity
• To search for the baby ghost and find forgiveness
• To search for Halle's ghost and find peace in moving on
• To search for Howard and Buglar in hopes they might come home

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What purpose did the Clearing serve when Sethe first arrived at 124?

• A gathering place for both whites and blacks
• A gathering place for spiritual revivals led by Baby Suggs
• A gathering place for the KKK
• A gathering place for white people who believed freedom should be outlawed

How much time passed between Sethe's arrival at 124 and the murder of her baby daughter?

• Almost a year
• The better part of 6 months
• 28 days
• 2 weeks

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What is the name of the man who helped Sethe cross the Ohio River?

• Paul D
• Halle Suggs
• Buglar Howard
• Stamp Paid

What does Sethe ask of Baby Suggs's ghost in the Clearing?

• To rub her neck like she used to
• To bring back her run-off boys
• To bring back her dead baby girl
• To take care of her deceased husband

What harm befalls Sethe in the Clearing?

• She falls in the stream and almost drowns
• She is choked by an invisible force
• She falls from the rock and breaks her arm
• She hits her head on a tree and is knocked unconscious

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On the walk home from the Clearing, Sethe decide her attacker must have been whom?

• Baby Suggs's ghost
• Beloved
• The baby's ghost
• Howard's or Buglar's ghost

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After the visit to the Clearing, Sethe feels renewed fiath in what?

• God
• That Beloved is her deceased daughter in physical form
• Her relationship with Denver
• Her relationship with Paul D

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Why does Beloved resent Paul D?

• His relationship with Sethe
• His relationship with Denver
• He can read and write while she cannot
• He is a man and she is not

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Who does Denver believe attacked Sethe in the Clearing?

• Baby Suggs's ghost
• Beloved
• The baby's ghost
• Howard's or Buglar's ghost

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