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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sethe try to kill Denver?
(a) By pouring boiling water over her
(b) By dropping her from a great height
(c) By swinging her at a wooden beam
(d) By throwing her into the river

2. What does Sethe say Paul D is not allowed to do?
(a) Sleep in the house
(b) Cook
(c) Yell or punish her daughter
(d) Enter her bedroom

3. What does Denver ask Paul D?
(a) How long he is going to hang around
(b) What his real name he is
(c) How old he is
(d) If he is a man or a mouse

4. Where does Beloved work?
(a) A restaurant
(b) A cafe
(c) A bar
(d) A factory

5. Why was Paul D imprisoned?
(a) For trying to kill a man called Brandyman
(b) For having sex with a white woman
(c) For killing cattle
(d) For swearing at his slave owner

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul D end up telling Sethe?

2. What does Paul presume Beloved is?

3. What has Sethe done to her baby?

4. Where does the Sheriff and his friends find Sethe?

5. What does Denver say she saw holding Sethe?

(see the answer key)

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