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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Delia say she had brought to her marriage to Sykes?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Faith.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Love.

2. Where had Sykes emptied his pockets, leaving him without a match during his encounter with the rattlesnake?
(a) Bertha's room.
(b) The general store.
(c) In the carriage.
(d) At the diner.

3. What does Delia call Sykes's action of scaring her with the bullwhip?
(a) An injustice.
(b) A travesty.
(c) A joke.
(d) A sin.

4. To what location does Delia say Sykes has taken half a box of her matches?
(a) To Orlando.
(b) To the tent revival.
(c) To Bertha's boarding house.
(d) To the general store.

5. When Delia arrives home from Woodbridge, what does the narrator say Delia knows even before she strikes a match?
(a) That Sykes has gotten rid of the rattlesnake.
(b) That Sykes has brought his mistress into Delia's house.
(c) That Sykes has stolen her money.
(d) That Sykes has moved out of the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Delia tell Sykes he has killed by bringing the snake to the house?

2. What two activities does the narrator say that Delia and Sykes now do in silence since their complete impasse?

3. What instruction does Sykes insist that he has given Delia over and over again without her capitulation?

4. Against what object does Sykes strike his match?

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

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