BELOVED TIMELINE

Question 1

1795

Answer 1

Baby Suggs, a slave, is born.

Question 2

1803

Answer 2

Ohio Becomes a State

Question 3

1835

Answer 3

Sethe & Halle is born. Paul D arrives at Sweet Home.

Question 4

1848

Answer 4

Sethe arrives at Sweet Home to replace Baby Suggs, whose freedom Halle has purchased with voluntary work.

Question 5

1849

Answer 5

Mrs. Garner agrees to Halle’s marriage to Sethe. Sethe secretly sews a “bedding dress”

Question 6

1849, Saturday

Answer 6

Sethe and Paul D marry

Question 7

1849, Sunday

Answer 7

Sethe is given crystal earrings, from Mrs. Garner

Question 8

1850

Answer 8

Howard is born

Question 9

1851

Answer 9

Buglar is born

Question 10

1854

Answer 10

Beloved is born

Question 11

1855

Answer 11

The plans to escape Sweet Home are foiled leaving Paul D chained up, Six-o burned and shot, and Sethe raped by the schoolteacher’s nephews

Question 12

1855 on a Monday

Answer 12

Amy helps deliver Denver near the Ohio River. Stamp Paid ferries the pair to a hut. Ella leads them to 124 Bluestone Road, where Baby Suggs tends to Sethe

Question 13

1855, 4 weeks after Sethe arrives at Sweet Home

Answer 13

Stamp Paid delivers two buckets of berries to Baby Suggs prompting her to make a feast for 90 people

Question 14

1855, a day after the feast

Answer 14

Sethe kills Beloved, tries to kill her other children when the schoolteacher and his nephews arrive to take her and the children back, Sethe and Denver are taken to jail.

Question 15

1856

Answer 15

Paul D is locked onto a chain for 83 days in a prison camp in Albert, Georgia.

Question 16

1857, January

Answer 16

Mudslides force the Albert, Georgia convicts to escape & flee to a Cherokee camp

Question 17

1857, February

Answer 17

Paul D flees north

Question 18

1857, July

Answer 18

Moves in with a weaver lady

Question 19

1858

Answer 19

With help from Mr. Bodwin, Sethe gets a job in the kitchen of Sawyer’s restaurant.

Question 20

1860

Answer 20

Paul D takes a job with the Northpoint Bank and Railroad Company and departs Delaware

Question 21

1862

Answer 21

Denver attends Lady Jones’s school

Question 22

1863

Answer 22

Nelson Lord ends Denver’s school days by questioning her about Sethe’s jail term

Question 23

1864

Answer 23

Denver hears the crawling ghost on the stairs.

Question 24

1865

Answer 24

Buglar and Howard leave home. Baby Suggs dies.

Question 25

1866

Answer 25

Paul D finds work in Trenton, New Jersey.

Question 26

1869

Answer 26

Paul D watches girls arrive in Rochester and search out a “preacher on DeVore Street.”

Question 27

1873, Monday, August

Answer 27

Paul D comes to 124 Bluestone Road in Cincinnati

Question 28

1873, Thursday, 11:00 AM

Answer 28

Paul D escorts Denver and Sethe to the carnival beside the lumberyard

Question 29

1873, Thursday, late afternoon

Answer 29

Beloved appears in the flesh, sitting on a stump outside Sethe’s house. Sethe loses bladder control

Question 30

1873, in winter

Answer 30

Beloved seduces Paul D.

Question 31

1874

Answer 31

Stamp Paid reads a newspaper clipping to Paul D that tells the story of Beloved’s murder. Paul D confronts Sethe about her deed and then leaves. For six consecutive days, Stamp Paid approaches Sethe’s door, each time leaving without knocking.

Question 32

1875, January

Answer 32

Denver, Beloved, and Sethe play and enjoy each other’s company on the frozen creek

Question 33

1875, March

Answer 33

Sethe discovers the scar on Beloved’s neck, which was created when Sethe killed her. By the end of the month, Sethe spends her life savings on fancy food and clothes in an attempt to appease Beloved

Question 34

1874, April

Answer 34

Denver has an epiphany, Denver asks Lady Jones for work. Lady Jones gives her food.

Question 35

1874, Friday in Summer

Answer 35

Thirty women approach 124 Bluestone Road as Edwin Bodwin comes to fetch Denver to go to work. Thinking Bodwin intends to take her children, Sethe tries to stab him with an ice pick. Ella stops her, and Denver wrestles her to the ground. A very pregnant Beloved vanishes from the porch.

Question 36

After Beloved disappearance

Answer 36

Sethe takes to her bed. Paul D returns and helps her learn to live again.