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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Delia call Sykes's action of scaring her with the bullwhip?
(a) A travesty.
(b) A joke.
(c) A sin.
(d) An injustice.

3. In what season does the story entitled "Sweat" begin?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

4. The narrator describes Sykes's choice of the laundry pile on which to step using which adjective?
(a) The tidiest.
(b) The cleanest.
(c) The whitest.
(d) The biggest.

5. What simile does Hurston use to characterize Delia's throwing off of her most habitual character trait?
(a) Like a swatch of chiffon.
(b) Like a blown scarf.
(c) Like a lace collar.
(d) Like an old snakeskin.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long has Delia been married to Sykes?

2. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Delia's washtub?

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

4. What substance does Delia demand that Sykes stop grinding into the clothes?

5. The narrator describes Delia as giving "a little scream of" (2) what when Sykes steps upon her laundry?

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