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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much coffee does Sykes ask Joe Clarke to sell him?
2. What skill does Sykes learn from a Northern white woman?
3. What two activities does the narrator say that Delia and Sykes now do in silence since their complete impasse?
4. What causes the snake to come alive and start to rattle incessantly?
5. When Delia sees the snake's fangs, she does not run away like usual, nor does she do what with her eyes as she has done in the past?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is ironic about Sykes's statement to Bertha that the town is his and that she can have it if she wants it?
2. When Old Man Anderson suggests that the men kill Sykes, what is the men's reaction?
3. What arguments do the men present when they are trying to get Joe Clarke to bring out a watermelon for them to share?
4. What causes a "determined silence" (4) to fall over the porch when the men are about to slice the watermelon?
5. What two differing reasons does Sykes give for why he was able to catch the six-foot rattlesnake in the first place?
6. How does Delia try "to be blind and deaf" (5) to Sykes's gallivanting around town with Bertha?
7. What does Sykes mean when he tells Delia not to ask him for anything and comments on her attempt to "goin' roun' trying 'tuh be so damn asterperious"? (6)
8. What is Sykes's reply to Delia's insistence that he remove the rattlesnake from their home?
9. What does Delia say is different about Bertha in comparison to other women with whom Sykes has had affairs?
10. What plans does Sykes make with Bertha and what is the significance of these plans?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of the short story's title and how does it relate to the themes present within the story's narrative?
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of the first scene in the story when Sykes frightens Delia with his bullwhip?
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of religion within the short story and how do its messages about religion intersect with the religious beliefs of Zora Neale Hurston?
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