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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sykes refuses to take the snake away and says that he does not have to do anything besides take a particular action, what action does he say he must do?
(a) Scream.
(b) Kneel.
(c) Die.
(d) Laugh.

2. Who drives past the store just when Sykes is ordering food for Bertha at the store?
(a) Delia.
(b) Sykes's former mistress.
(c) Joe Clarke's daughter.
(d) Elijah's wife.

3. How often does Sykes say he could catch a big rattlesnake if he wanted to?
(a) Every week.
(b) Every day.
(c) Every month.
(d) Every thirty seconds.

4. What kind of indifference does the narrator say Delia comes to feel about everything Sykes says or does after she realizes that his evil deeds will revisit him in the end?
(a) Bored.
(b) Uneasy.
(c) Triumphant.
(d) Tremendous.

5. For how long has Bertha been living in Eatonville on the day Sykes takes her to the store?
(a) Four months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) Three months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Delia say Sykes had brought to their marriage?

2. Sykes assures Bertha that he is the "swellest man in the whole" (5) what?

3. Jim says that Sykes has always been crazy about what kind of women?

4. When Joe Lindsay says that there ought to be a law about Sykes's behavior, he says that Sykes "ain't fit tuh carry guts to a" (3) what?

5. In what town does Delia attend church at the time Sykes is keeping the rattlesnake?

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