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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 an old snakeskin.
(c) Like a lace collar.
(d) Like a blown scarf.

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

4. Who drives past the store just when Sykes is ordering food for Bertha at the store?
(a) Sykes's former mistress.
(b) Delia.
(c) Joe Clarke's daughter.
(d) Elijah's wife.

5. When Sykes laughs at Delia for being scared of the bullwhip, what physical movement does he make?
(a) He slaps his leg.
(b) He wipes his face.
(c) He crosses his legs.
(d) He stomps his foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of material makes up the mattress of the bed in Delia's home?

2. What does the narrator say "pleased him for Delia to see" (4) when Sykes is ordering at Joe Clarke's store?

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

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

5. What does Sykes tell Delia he will do if she argues with him about taking in white people's laundry?

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