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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 Delia mean when she says that she will stay in the house until she is "toted out foot foremost"? (2)
(a) Until she sells the house.
(b) Until she is arrested.
(c) Until she dies.
(d) Until the house burns down.

2. What causes the snake to come alive and start to rattle incessantly?
(a) It rains.
(b) The weather gets warmer.
(c) Sykes feeds it a mouse.
(d) It finishes digesting its food.

3. What does Delia tell Sykes he has killed by bringing the snake to the house?
(a) Her peace.
(b) Her spirit.
(c) Her insides.
(d) Her contentment.

4. How long after their wedding had Sykes brutally beaten Delia?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three months.

5. After Delia tells Sykes that she will no longer take his abuse, what does he do as he is departing from the house?
(a) He hits her.
(b) He slams the gate.
(c) He threatens her.
(d) He kicks the rattlesnake's box.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what room does Delia sort the clothes she will launder?

2. Who says he would have married Delia himself if Sykes had not beaten him to it?

3. What day of the week is considered the Sabbath within traditional Christianity?

4. When Sykes tells Delia that he has promised "some other men" (2) that he will not allow Delia to do laundry for white people, whose name is the only one he mentions?

5. 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?

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