Beloved/Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was inspired to write Beloved after

• her own experience living in a house that was haunted

• she realized that America is haunted by slavery

• reading about a runaway slave named Margaret Garner

• one of her own children died at a young age

Which of the following is not a first sentence in one of Toni Morrison's novels?

• On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter.

• 124 was spiteful.

• Quiet as its kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.

• They shoot the white girl first.

What is Sethe told the scars on her back resember?

• a rosebush

• tangled vines of honeysuckle

• a sycamore tree

• a chokecherry tree

What is the name of the dog that the poltergeist throws against the wall?

• Good Boy

• Here Boy

• Bad Boy

• Fetch Boy

Where are Paul D, Sethe, and Denver coming from when they first encounter Beloved?

• a carnival

• church

• a picnic

• a funeral

Why does the young woman who shows up outside 124 Bluestone Road call herself Beloved?

• that was her given name at birth

• that was Paul D's nickname for Sethe

• she got it from the Bible (Romans 9:25)

• that was the only word on her tombstone

Who was Denver named after?

• the white girl who helped Sethe

• the white woman Sethe worked for

• her father

• the white man that beat Sethe

Everyone who attends the carnival associates it with the smell of

• cotton candy

• horse manure

• dying roses

• burned popcorn

Beloved walks, fully dressed, out of

• the woods

• the water

• the church

• the grave

Once she can get out of bed, what are the two things Beloved can't get enough of?

• flowers and oranges

• coffee and biscuits

• chamomile and music

• sugar and stories