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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sykes tell Delia he will do if she argues with him about taking in white people's laundry?
(a) Punch her.
(b) Strangle her.
(c) Shove her.
(d) Kick her.

2. When Sykes leaves and Delia feels certain that he will not be home until a certain time, when is that time?
(a) The following night.
(b) After dawn.
(c) The following week.
(d) Nearly daybreak.

3. Where does Sykes say he has been when Delia asks him where he has been with her horse and buckboard?
(a) He does not say.
(b) At the corner store.
(c) At church.
(d) With Bertha.

4. What title does the narrator ascribe to Delia's job of doing other people's laundry?
(a) Wash-woman.
(b) Laundress.
(c) Maid.
(d) Tailor.

5. What verb does the narrator use to describe what Delia's pose in the kitchen does to Sykes?
(a) It angers him.
(b) It cows him.
(c) It scares him.
(d) It emasculates him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season does the story entitled "Sweat" begin?

2. When Delia tells Sykes she is not in the mood for a fight because she has just come from a particular place, what is that place?

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

4. When the scene shifts to the porch at the corner store for the first time, what month is it?

5. How long after their wedding had Sykes brutally beaten Delia?

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