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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Joe Clarke says that there is no law in the world that will make a man act a certain way, what is that certain way he mentions?
(a) Decent.
(b) Conscientious.
(c) Loving.
(d) Faithful.

3. What type of material makes up the mattress of the bed in Delia's home?
(a) Hay.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Buckwheat.
(d) Feathers.

4. What does Delia say Sykes had brought to their marriage?
(a) A longing after the flesh.
(b) Violence.
(c) Anger.
(d) Lies.

5. 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) Whether dinner is ready.
(b) How the subject involves him.
(c) Where his share of the profits have gone.
(d) If she has salted the stew.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long has Delia been doing people's laundry to bring in money?

2. What kind of indifference does the narrator say Delia comes to feel about everything Sykes says or does after she realizes that his evil deeds will revisit him in the end?

3. What verb does the narrator use to describe what Delia's pose in the kitchen does to Sykes?

4. Who says that Sykes had once come to his house when he was not home in order to try to seduce his wife?

5. What "habitual" character trait of Delia's seems "to slip from her shoulders" (1) after Sykes threatens her with physical violence?

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