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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about how Bertha goes about making Delia's goal impossible to achieve?
(a) She talks the banker into calling in Delia's entire mortgage to be paid off.
(b) She spreads gossip about Delia in town.
(c) She engages Delia in conversation whenever she can.
(d) She comes to Delia's house to call Sykes out to her at the gate.

2. What does Delia call Sykes's action of scaring her with the bullwhip?
(a) A sin.
(b) A travesty.
(c) An injustice.
(d) A joke.

3. Who pays Bertha's rent in Eatonville?
(a) Bertha's ex-husband.
(b) Joe Clarke.
(c) Sykes.
(d) Walter.

4. How much coffee does Sykes ask Joe Clarke to sell him?
(a) Two pounds.
(b) Three pounds.
(c) A pound.
(d) Half of a pound.

5. What type of material makes up the mattress of the bed in Delia's home?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Hay.
(d) Buckwheat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what night of the week does Delia stay up late in order to get a head start on her work?

3. What kind of nuts had Sykes brought as a present to help him woo one of the men's wives?

4. What title does the narrator ascribe to Delia's job of doing other people's laundry?

5. What kind of silence does the narrator say falls on the porch when Sykes and Bertha arrive at the store?

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