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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Delia say she does for her pony that makes him belong to her?
(a) She fills his water trough.
(b) She feeds him.
(c) She brushes him.
(d) She shoes him.

3. On what night of the week does Delia stay up late in order to get a head start on her work?
(a) Monday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Saturday.

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

5. Where does Sykes say he has been when Delia asks him where he has been with her horse and buckboard?
(a) At church.
(b) He does not say.
(c) At the corner store.
(d) With Bertha.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes Sykes's choice of the laundry pile on which to step using which adjective?

2. What simile does Hurston use to characterize Delia's throwing off of her most habitual character trait?

3. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Delia's washtub?

4. 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?

5. For how long has Delia been married to Sykes?

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