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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 skill does Sykes learn from a Northern white woman?
(a) How to run a store.
(b) How to raise chickens.
(c) How to drive a car.
(d) How to read.

2. What does Delia nearly do as a result of being pushed by Sykes when he is blocking the kitchen doorway?
(a) She nearly steps on the soap box.
(b) She nearly falls off the steps.
(c) She nearly claws Sykes's arm.
(d) She nearly falls down onto the porch.

3. To what town does Sykes often take Bertha so they can participate in stomps?
(a) Apalachicola.
(b) Winter Park.
(c) Orlando.
(d) Deer Lake.

4. Who says he would have married Delia himself if Sykes had not beaten him to it?
(a) Walter.
(b) Jim.
(c) Elijah.
(d) Joe.

5. The narrator describes Delia's shoulders as thin and what?
(a) Bent.
(b) Stooped.
(c) Strong.
(d) Sloped.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What adjective does Sykes use to describe Delia just before he steps into the room where she is sorting laundry?

3. In addition to the adjective black, what other adjective does Delia use to describe Bertha the first time she brings her up to Sykes?

4. When Delia lies in bed mourning her lost love and friendship with her husband, she says it "is too late for everything" (2) except what?

5. What does the narrator say that the men on Joe's porch do with the cane-knots on the day Sykes and Bertha come to the store, due to the extreme heat?

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