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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the men on Joe's porch usually would do with the cane-knots if it were not so stiflingly hot outside?
(a) Hurl them.
(b) Swallow them.
(c) Chew them.
(d) Give them to the horses.

2. What does Delia nearly do as a result of being pushed by Sykes when he is blocking the kitchen doorway?
(a) She nearly steps on the soap box.
(b) She nearly claws Sykes's arm.
(c) She nearly falls off the steps.
(d) She nearly falls down onto the porch.

3. For how long is Delia unable to speak when she feels the bullwhip across her shoulders?
(a) Two minutes.
(b) Fifteen seconds.
(c) One minute.
(d) Thirty seconds.

4. What "habitual" character trait of Delia's seems "to slip from her shoulders" (1) after Sykes threatens her with physical violence?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Humility.
(c) Meekness.
(d) Ease.

5. What skill does Sykes learn from a Northern white woman?
(a) How to drive a car.
(b) How to raise chickens.
(c) How to read.
(d) How to run a store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose name does Sykes keep calling after he has been bitten by the rattlesnake?

2. What two items does Sykes tell Joe Clarke he has come to buy?

3. What action does Delia say she had taken so that she could avoid being in close proximity to Sykes?

4. What does Delia do at the kitchen table just before she stands up and tells Sykes that she hates him?

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

(see the answer key)

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