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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of women does Sykes declare to Delia that he hates?
(a) Mean.
(b) Lying.
(c) Sneaky.
(d) Skinny.

2. What instruction does Sykes insist that he has given Delia over and over again without her capitulation?
(a) To keep the stove clean.
(b) To have his dinner ready when he gets home from work.
(c) To keep white people's clothes out of the house.
(d) To answer him when he asks her a question.

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

4. What adjective does Sykes use to describe Delia just before he steps into the room where she is sorting laundry?
(a) Solicitous.
(b) Aggravating.
(c) Dissembling.
(d) Annoying.

5. What object does Delia credit with paying for the house she and Sykes live in?
(a) Her blood.
(b) Her sweat.
(c) Her horse.
(d) Her mother's diamond ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sykes leaves and Delia feels certain that he will not be home until a certain time, when is that time?

2. What verb does the narrator use to describe what Delia's pose in the kitchen does to Sykes?

3. Where does Sykes say he has been when Delia asks him where he has been with her horse and buckboard?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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