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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Delia comes home and finds Sykes standing in the kitchen doorway, she says that her only two options are to stoop under his arm or to do what?
(a) Shove him out of the way.
(b) Ask him to move.
(c) Stare him down until he moves.
(d) Go around to the back door.

2. Who owns the disreputable boarding house in Eatonville?
(a) Della Lewis.
(b) Joe Clarke.
(c) Elijah Moseley.
(d) Sally Anderson.

3. Who drives past the store just when Sykes is ordering food for Bertha at the store?
(a) Elijah's wife.
(b) Joe Clarke's daughter.
(c) Sykes's former mistress.
(d) Delia.

4. What does the narrator say that Delia is able to "build...against her husband" (3) after she decides that he will reap what he sows?
(a) A spiritual earthworks.
(b) A code of silence.
(c) A decadent shroud.
(d) A wall of hatred.

5. What reason does Sykes provide for his conclusion that the snake would never bite Delia?
(a) Because the snake would recognize her as a fellow demon.
(b) Because the snake would not want to risk breaking his fangs on her bony legs.
(c) Because the snake knows it would be killed.
(d) Because snakes do not bite masculine women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adverb is used to indicate the manner in which Sykes pushes Delia when he wants her to see the rattlesnake he has brought home?

2. On the afternoon when Sykes and Bertha come to the store, what does the narrator say had even "collapsed under the heat"? (3)

3. What day does Sykes say he has almost forgotten it is when he is about to leave the store with Bertha?

4. In addition to the adjective black, what other adjective does Delia use to describe Bertha the first time she brings her up to Sykes?

5. What simile does Walter use to describe how pretty Delia had been as a young woman?

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