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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say streams down like a "million hot arrows" (5) during the time when Delia and Sykes are not speaking to one another?
(a) The heat.
(b) The raindrops.
(c) The rays of the sun.
(d) The tense moments.

2. What does the narrator say about how Bertha goes about making Delia's goal impossible to achieve?
(a) She spreads gossip about Delia in town.
(b) She comes to Delia's house to call Sykes out to her at the gate.
(c) She talks the banker into calling in Delia's entire mortgage to be paid off.
(d) She engages Delia in conversation whenever she can.

3. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Delia's pose when she picks up the object after Sykes threatens to hit her?
(a) Murderous.
(b) Defensive.
(c) Foreboding.
(d) Menacing.

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

5. What causes the snake to come alive and start to rattle incessantly?
(a) Sykes feeds it a mouse.
(b) It finishes digesting its food.
(c) The weather gets warmer.
(d) It rains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does Sykes delightedly use to describe Bertha's shape?

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

3. For how long has Bertha been living in Eatonville on the day Sykes takes her to the store?

4. What idiom does Sykes use to describe his suggested action for anyone who does not like the snake?

5. Delia tells Sykes that she now hates him to the same degree that what?

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