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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Muttsy," "Sweat," "Under the Bridge," and "'Possum or Pig?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which type of wood is NOT mentioned when Isis watches her grandmother gathering a collection of switches?
(a) Peach.
(b) Guana.
(c) Cherry.
(d) Apple.

2. In what type of dwelling does Bertha live?
(a) A brothel.
(b) A hostel.
(c) A boarding house.
(d) A hotel.

3. What sort of the malady does the boy at the center of the story "A Bit of Harlem" have?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Scurvy.
(c) A hunchback.
(d) Epilepsy.

4. With what object does Sykes scare his wife Delia in the opening passages of the story entitled "Sweat"?
(a) A sock.
(b) A knife.
(c) A spider.
(d) A bullwhip.

5. Which member of the family disapproves of John's desire to travel?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His older brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stories in total are presented within the collection Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick?

2. For how many years have Delia and Sykes been married by the opening of the story "Sweat"?

3. What element does the narrator name as the only thing Sykes had brought to his marriage?

4. John agrees to help save what type of structure in the face of an approaching storm?

5. When Stella asks Jim for a job, she says she had arrived the previous day from which state?

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