View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sykes calls Delia a hypocrite, what sin does he accuse her of committing to warrant this label?
(a) Working on the Sabbath.
(b) Being proud.
(c) Lying.
(d) Stealing.

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

3. What does the narrator say "pleased him for Delia to see" (4) when Sykes is ordering at Joe Clarke's store?
(a) The spending of her money.
(b) His mistress accompanying him out in public.
(c) His determination to ignore her.
(d) His flagrant abuse of her pony with his bullwhip.

4. What do the men immediately do when Sykes and Bertha arrive at the store when they are about to cut into the watermelon?
(a) They put away the watermelon and the knives.
(b) They offer the pair a slice of watermelon.
(c) They go inside the store.
(d) They walk off down the road carrying the watermelon with them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say streams down like a "million hot arrows" (5) during the time when Delia and Sykes are not speaking to one another?

2. How does Delia describe Sykes's screams when he is bitten by the snake?

3. What day does Sykes say he has almost forgotten it is when he is about to leave the store with Bertha?

4. Who lets a bullwhip fall onto Delia's shoulders in order to scare her?

5. What action does Dave say causes Bertha to look like a particular animal?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 294 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample