Q 01/05

Who wrote the 1987 novel Beloved?

A) Zora Neale Hurston

B) Toni Morrison

C) Maya Angelou

D) Alice Walker

Answer · why

B) Toni Morrison

It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.

Q 02/05

In which city is Beloved set?

A) Cleveland

B) Louisville

C) Detroit

D) Cincinnati

Answer · why

D) Cincinnati

The story opens in 1873 in a house at 124 Bluestone Road.

Q 03/05

What is the name of the novel's protagonist, a formerly enslaved mother of four?

A) Sethe

B) Denver

C) Baby Suggs

D) Amy

Answer · why

A) Sethe

She was 19 when her daughter Denver was born, which puts her birth in 1836.

Q 04/05

The novel is loosely based on the life of which enslaved woman who fled Kentucky in 1856?

A) Harriet Tubman

B) Sojourner Truth

C) Margaret Garner

D) Harriet Jacobs

Answer · why

C) Margaret Garner

She killed her two-year-old daughter Mary with a butcher knife rather than see her re-enslaved.

Q 05/05

Morrison found the 1856 newspaper article about Garner while editing which 1974 anthology?

A) The Freedom Reader

B) The Black Book

C) The Negro Almanac

D) The Souls of Black Folk

Answer · why

B) The Black Book

It was a Random House collection of texts on Black history and culture.