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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the men all grunt in approval in response to Old Man Anderson's suggestion that they kill Sykes, what does the narrator say then melts with the heat?
(a) Their moral turpitude.
(b) Their civic virtue.
(c) Their stick-to-it-iveness.
(d) Their determination.

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

3. What gesture does Delia make toward the men on Joe's porch as she passes by?
(a) She turns away.
(b) She waves.
(c) She nods.
(d) She makes the sign of the evil eye.

4. The narrator describes Delia's shoulders as thin and what?
(a) Sloped.
(b) Bent.
(c) Strong.
(d) Stooped.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe the color of the rattlesnake's fangs?

2. Sykes assures Bertha that he is the "swellest man in the whole" (5) what?

3. What reason does Sykes provide for his conclusion that the snake would never bite him?

4. Who says he would have married Delia himself if Sykes had not beaten him to it?

5. When Delia goes into the yard to retrieve the washtub, what action does Sykes take inside the house?

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