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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Delia goes into the yard to retrieve the washtub, what action does Sykes take inside the house?
(a) He pours coffee over her sorted laundry.
(b) He throws the sorted laundry into the backyard.
(c) He kicks her sorted laundry back into one pile.
(d) He hides her sorted laundry in the closet.

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

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

4. When the snake starts to rattle incessantly inside its soap box, movements in what two locations cause him to rattle?
(a) The kitchen and the yard.
(b) The yard and the stairs.
(c) The bedroom and the kitchen.
(d) The stairs and the porch.

5. When Sykes says that one reason he caught the snake easily was because it had just had a meal, what does he say it had just eaten?
(a) Rats.
(b) Lizards.
(c) Frogs.
(d) Toads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does Delia say she had taken so that she could avoid being in close proximity to Sykes?

2. Before Delia begs Sykes to kill the rattlesnake he has brought home, what does she ask him to do with it?

3. What kind of silence does the narrator say falls on the porch when Sykes and Bertha arrive at the store?

4. What does Delia do with the clothes after Sykes steps on them?

5. When Delia first sees the soap box Sykes has brought home, next to what object is the soap box sitting?

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