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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 Walter say he sees Sykes do every time he passes a woman?
(a) Stare.
(b) Imagine.
(c) Grin.
(d) Laugh.

2. Delia decides to sit down and to reach between the bedposts while sorting laundry so that she may do what while she is working?
(a) Count.
(b) Doze.
(c) Rest.
(d) Talk.

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

4. What type of rattlesnake does Sykes say the snake is?
(a) Timber.
(b) Diamondback.
(c) Canebreak.
(d) Mojave.

5. The bullwhip is described by the narrator as long, round, limp, and what?
(a) Heavy.
(b) Cold.
(c) Studded.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. When one of the men's wives had repelled Sykes's advances, she had told him that Delia worked so hard that she bet everything in the house tasted like sweat and what?

2. What adjective does Sykes delightedly use to describe Bertha's shape?

3. When the narrator describes Sykes crawling toward Delia with a swollen neck and only one eye able to open, what emotion is said to reside within his one open eye?

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

5. What adjective is used to describe the lamp that Delia lights before she finds the rattlesnake Sykes has left in the hamper?

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