2. To what town does Sykes often take Bertha so they can participate in stomps?
(a) Orlando.
(b) Winter Park.
(c) Apalachicola.
(d) Deer Lake.

3. How long after their wedding had Sykes brutally beaten Delia?
(a) Two months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Two years.

4. What tool does Joe Clarke offer to lend the men so they can cut the watermelon for sharing?
(a) His meat knife.
(b) His switchblade.
(c) His bowie knife.
(d) His machete.

5. What does Delia say she does for her pony that makes him belong to her?
(a) She fills his water trough.
(b) She brushes him.
(c) She feeds him.
(d) She shoes him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When one of the men's wives had repelled Sykes's advances, she had told him that Delia worked so hard that she bet everything in the house tasted like sweat and what?

2. What day of the week is considered the Sabbath within traditional Christianity?

3. What does Delia call Sykes's action of scaring her with the bullwhip?

4. What "habitual" character trait of Delia's seems "to slip from her shoulders" (1) after Sykes threatens her with physical violence?

5. What does Walter say he sees Sykes do every time he passes a woman?

(see the answer key)

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