Name:___________________________
Date:____________________________
Miss Egerton
Beloved
Character Identification: Please match the characters name to the
description that best describes him or her.
Directions: Please complete all five sections. Good Luck!
Your
Answer:
Character:
Description:
1
Seth
a
Buries his dear in a “rusted tobacco tin”
2
Denver
b
Organizes the women of the community to exorcise
Beloved from 124.
3
Beloved
c
Goes mad after seeing his wife abused
4
Paul D
d
Play an active role in Sethe’s freedom
5
School Teacher
e
Loathes her blond hair
6
Halle
f
Delivers Denver
7
Lady Jones
g
The protagonist of the novel
8
Ella
h
The owner(s) of Sweet Home
9
Mr. and Mrs.
Garner
i
Said to be the spirit of Sethe’s deceased daughter
10
Amy Denver
j
Believes in rigid rules and punishment on the plantation.
11
Mr. and Miss
Bodwin
k
Dies during the escape from the plantation
12
Sixo
l
Maintains an intense fear of the world outside 124
Setting Representation: Draw a representation or a map of “124”. In your drawing
include notes labeling which room, or place the following would
be found. You must include 5 out of the seven in your
representation.
1) The place where Paul D. first noticed the “tree” on Sethe’s back
2) The red coloured stain
3) The location(s) Paul D. Slept at night
4) The place where Sethe, Denver and Beloved fell asleep after Paul D left 124
5) The place where Denver met Sethe every day after work
6) The place “Beloved” was supposedly murdered
7) The room Baby Sugg’s passed away in
Multiple Choice: Circle the letter of the best possible answer
1) The author of Beloved is
a) Jon Marsh
b) Toni Morrison
c) Sophie Kinsella
d) John Steinbeck
2) Where is 124 located?
a) Alfred, Georgia
b) Baton Rouge, Louisiana
c) Just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio
d) Wilmington, Delaware
3) Where does Denver go to find solitude?
a) A grove she calls her emerald closet
b) The clearing
c)The Church
d) Lady Jones’ house
4) Which set of schoolteacher’s lessons does Sethe find most shocking?
a) His lessons on lynching
b) His lessons on forgiveness
c) His lessons on her animal characteristics
d) His lessons on sexual violation
5) What is Beloved doing when Sethe first sees her?
a) Swimming in a stream
c) Walking home from the carnival with
Denver
b) Sleeping near the steps of 124
d) Trembling in the woodshed
6) What allows Paul D to escape from prison in Georgia?
a) A prison uprising
c) Mr. Garner’s interventions
b) A feigned illness
d) A rainstorm
7) What is signaled by the return of Here Boy?
a) Beloveds departure
c) Baby Suggs presence
b) Halle’s death
d) The community
8) What prevents Baby Suggs from sensing schoolteacher’s approach?
a) A sudden loss of hearing and sight
c) Lack of cooperation from the
community
b) Fatigue from the previous night’s party d) Her rejection of religion
9) Who saves Denver’s life in the woodshed?
a) Stamp
b) Beloved
c) The Thirty Mile woman
d) Howard and Bulgar
10) Why does Denver stop going to Lady Jones’ school?
a) She can’t afford to pay tuition
b) a fellow student asks about her mother
c) She doesn’t like Lady
Jones
d) Sethe wants her to stay
at home
11) Who helps Sethe find safety after she escapes from Sweet Home?
a) Paul D, Paul F, and Paul A
b) Paul D, Stamp Paid, and Halle
c) Amy, Janey, and Lady Jones
d) Amy, Stamp Paid, and Ella
12) Where is Denver born?
a) In baby Suggs bedroom
b) In a cornfield at Sweet Home
c) In a boat
d) In a hospital in Cincinnati
13) Where does Miss Bodwin want to send Denver?
a) To a job in a shirt factory
c) To a school for black girls in
Pennsylvania
b) To Oberlin College
d) To Paris
14) Who are the “men without skin”?
a) White men that haunt Beloved’s thoughts c) Male slaves who have lost claim
over their manhood
b) Sethe’s dead ancestors
d) Traumatized ex-slaves who have
numbed themselves to
all pain
15) According to Paul D and Sethe, why does Halle slather butter on his face?
a) Schoolteacher forces him to do it as part of an “experiment”
b) He wants to soothe his skin after imagining Sixo’s burning
c) c) He wants to convince Mrs. Garner he is insane so she will free him
d) Watching schoolteacher’s nephews violate Sethe makes him go mad
16) After whom is Denver named?
a) The young white girl who delivers her
b) The city of Sethe’s birth
c) A kind of wild flower
d) The Denver river
17) By whom does Denver believe Sethe is being choked as they sit in the Clearing?
a) Baby Sugg’s ghost
c) School Teacher
b) The malevolent energy of the community d) Beloved
18) What causes Denver to lose her hearing temporarily?
a) She hears the story of her father’s madness
b) She asks Sethe whether she was put in jail for murder but goes deaf before
she can listen to the answer
c) Her ears are damaged by excessively
d) She hears her sister’s screams as Sethe murders her loud music at the
carnival
19) How does Denver regain her hearing?
a) Baby Suggs blesses her
b) Beloved tells her about the afterlife
c) She hears the dead baby’s ghost crawling upstairs
d) Sethe bathes her head in the stream
20) What finally convinces Sethe that Beloved is her daughter’s ghost?
a) Beloved asks where Sethe’s earrings are
b) Sethe sees the scar under Beloved’s chin
c) Beloved’s breath smells of milk
d) Beloved hums a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children
Important Quotations: Pick 2 of the following quotes and explain why
the quote is important to the novel (i.e. Theme, Setting,
Character development, Tone, etc.)
1) “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom”.
2) “White people believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a
jungle. Swift unavoidable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red
gums ready for their sweet white blood. In a way . . . they were right. . . But it wasn’t the
jungle blacks brought with them to this place. . . It was the jungle white folks planted in
them. And it grew. It spread . . . until it invaded the whites who had made it. . . .Made
them bloody, silly, worse than even they wanted to be, so scared were they of the jungle
they had made. The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin; the red gums
were their own”.
3) “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 tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart
used to be. Its lid rusted shut”.
4) “. . . [I]f you go there—you who was never there—if you go there and stand in the
place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there, waiting for you . . . [E]ven though
it’s all over—over and done with—it’s going to always be there waiting for you”.
5) “And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew.
Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine
and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there
where no one could hurt them. Over there. Outside this place, where they would be
safe”.
Essay:
The last few days you have been watching Jonathan Demmes’ movie, Beloved where you were able to
compare the novel to the movie. In comparing the novel and movie we established that some scenes
from Toni Morrison’s version of Beloved were removed. In a proper essay format (see notes below),
pick two differences from the novel and movie and argue, which one you believed was more effective in
conveying the hardships of slavery.
In your essay you must:
1) Have a clear thesis statement
2) Two differences from the novel and movie
3) Support
4) A strong conclusion
Essay Outline:
1st Paragraph:
Introduction-an outline of your paper along with your thesis statement
2nd Paragraph:
Compare one difference in the novel and movie
3rd Paragraph:
Compare a second difference in the novel and movie
4th Paragraph:
A conclusion-wrap up your two differences and restate your thesis in a different
way.
***For bonus marks, use the “an apple a day keeps the teacher away” diction
from our world wall within your essay. For each correctly used word I will give
you a half a mark***