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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much coffee does Sykes ask Joe Clarke to sell him?
(a) A pound.
(b) Three pounds.
(c) Half of a pound.
(d) Two pounds.

2. What skill does Sykes learn from a Northern white woman?
(a) How to read.
(b) How to drive a car.
(c) How to raise chickens.
(d) How to run a store.

3. When Delia lies in bed mourning her lost love and friendship with her husband, she says it "is too late for everything" (2) except what?
(a) Her self-respect.
(b) A change of scenery.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her little home.

4. What does the narrator say that the men on Joe's porch usually would do with the cane-knots if it were not so stiflingly hot outside?
(a) Hurl them.
(b) Give them to the horses.
(c) Swallow them.
(d) Chew them.

5. What object does Walter say is best to use when charming a rattlesnake?
(a) A flute.
(b) A basket.
(c) A club.
(d) A shotgun.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what town does Sykes often take Bertha so they can participate in stomps?

2. 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?

3. Where does Delia say Sykes would disappear to with all of his wages during the first year of their marriage?

4. What simile does the narrator use to describe the snake's fangs curving into the covering of its soap box?

5. What do the men immediately do when Sykes and Bertha arrive at the store when they are about to cut into the watermelon?

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