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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 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) Where his share of the profits have gone.
(c) Whether dinner is ready.
(d) How the subject involves him.

2. What two activities does the narrator say that Delia and Sykes now do in silence since their complete impasse?
(a) Work and sleep.
(b) Read and work.
(c) Sleep and eat.
(d) Eat and rest.

3. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Delia's washtub?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Rusty.
(c) Galvanized.
(d) Dented.

4. What does Delia tell Sykes will one day kill her?
(a) Sykes' physical abuse.
(b) The heat of midsummer.
(c) The physical labor of her job.
(d) Sykes' foolishness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gesture does Delia make toward the men on Joe's porch as she passes by?

2. What kind of nuts had Sykes brought as a present to help him woo one of the men's wives?

3. What does Walter say he sees Sykes do every time he passes a woman?

4. Elijah says that Sykes has beaten Delia enough to kill how many women?

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?

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