Sweat Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Sweat Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Delia place the washtub when she returns from the yard with it in her hands?
(a) On the washbench.
(b) On the back porch.
(c) In the kitchen sink.
(d) On the bedroom floor.

2. For what purpose does the narrator say Delia had built and improved upon her little home?
(a) For her husband's happiness.
(b) For her children.
(c) For her old age.
(d) For her security.

3. Jim says that Sykes has always been crazy about what kind of women?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Fat.
(c) Dark.
(d) Light.

4. What substance does Delia demand that Sykes stop grinding into the clothes?
(a) Mud.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Dust.
(d) Grime.

5. What does Delia tell Sykes will one day kill her?
(a) The physical labor of her job.
(b) The heat of midsummer.
(c) Sykes' foolishness.
(d) Sykes' physical abuse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Delia mean when she says that she will stay in the house until she is "toted out foot foremost"? (2)

3. What adjective does Sykes use to describe Delia just before he steps into the room where she is sorting laundry?

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

5. In what season does the story entitled "Sweat" begin?

(see the answer key)

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