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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What verb does the narrator use to describe what Delia's pose in the kitchen does to Sykes?
(a) It cows him.
(b) It emasculates him.
(c) It angers him.
(d) It scares him.

2. What idiom does Sykes use to describe his suggested action for anyone who does not like the snake?
(a) Hit the dirt.
(b) Fly a kite.
(c) Kiss his grits.
(d) Hit the grit.

3. 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) Ask him to move.
(b) Go around to the back door.
(c) Stare him down until he moves.
(d) Shove him out of the way.

4. What does the narrator say streams down like a "million hot arrows" (5) during the time when Delia and Sykes are not speaking to one another?
(a) The raindrops.
(b) The heat.
(c) The tense moments.
(d) The rays of the sun.

5. What does the narrator say the sun has done to turn July to August?
(a) Melted it into August.
(b) Smashed it into August.
(c) Scorched it into August.
(d) Burned it into August.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town had Bertha lived previously before coming to Eatonville?

2. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Delia's pose when she picks up the object after Sykes threatens to hit her?

3. What does Delia tell Sykes he has killed by bringing the snake to the house?

4. When Sykes declares how tired he is of Delia and leaves the house, what does he do on his way out?

5. What tool does Joe Clarke offer to lend the men so they can cut the watermelon for sharing?

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