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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Delia tells Sykes that she has been taking in laundry the whole time they have been married, what question does he immediately ask her?
(a) How the subject involves him.
(b) If she has salted the stew.
(c) Where his share of the profits have gone.
(d) Whether dinner is ready.

2. What "habitual" character trait of Delia's seems "to slip from her shoulders" (1) after Sykes threatens her with physical violence?
(a) Humility.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Ease.
(d) Meekness.

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

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

5. What adjective does Sykes use to describe Delia just before he steps into the room where she is sorting laundry?
(a) Aggravating.
(b) Solicitous.
(c) Dissembling.
(d) Annoying.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes Sykes's choice of the laundry pile on which to step using which adjective?

2. What does Delia say she does for her pony that makes him belong to her?

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

4. What does Delia tell Sykes will one day kill her?

5. What title does the narrator ascribe to Delia's job of doing other people's laundry?

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