Q 01/05

In Beloved, where does Baby Suggs gather the town's Black community to preach that they should love their bodies?

A) The Clearing

B) The riverbank

C) The church hall

D) The town square

Answer · why

A) The Clearing

The Clearing, a wide space deep in the woods, was where Baby Suggs preached, until she gave it up after Sethe killed her baby.

Q 02/05

In which city is Beloved set?

A) Cleveland

B) Louisville

C) Detroit

D) Cincinnati

Answer · why

D) Cincinnati

Cincinnati was where Sethe's freed mother-in-law had settled, so Sethe sent her children ahead to her there before making her own escape.

Q 03/05

In Beloved, which former Underground Railroad agent leads the neighborhood women to 124 to rid the house of Beloved?

A) Ella

B) Janey

C) Miss Bodwin

D) Mrs. Garner

Answer · why

A) Ella

Ella had shunned Sethe for years, yet when the grown ghost became dangerous she rallied the women who prayed and sang Beloved away.

Q 04/05

Toni Morrison later retold Margaret Garner's story, the real case behind Beloved, as which kind of work?

A) An opera

B) A Broadway musical

C) A stage play

D) A TV miniseries

Answer · why

A) An opera

An opera: Morrison wrote the libretto for Margaret Garner, premiered in 2005, while the real Garner had been sent back into slavery after her trial.

Q 05/05

Toni Morrison found the newspaper story of Margaret Garner while compiling which 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

The Black Book was credited to Middleton Harris and others, though Morrison helped compile it.