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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object does Delia pick up immediately after Sykes threatens her in the kitchen?
(a) A piece of crockery.
(b) A pair of scissors.
(c) An iron skillet.
(d) A butcher knife.

2. What instruction does Sykes insist that he has given Delia over and over again without her capitulation?
(a) To have his dinner ready when he gets home from work.
(b) To keep white people's clothes out of the house.
(c) To keep the stove clean.
(d) To answer him when he asks her a question.

3. When Delia goes into the yard to retrieve the washtub, what action does Sykes take inside the house?
(a) He kicks her sorted laundry back into one pile.
(b) He pours coffee over her sorted laundry.
(c) He hides her sorted laundry in the closet.
(d) He throws the sorted laundry into the backyard.

4. What gesture does Delia make toward the men on Joe's porch as she passes by?
(a) She nods.
(b) She makes the sign of the evil eye.
(c) She turns away.
(d) She waves.

5. What does Delia mean when she says that she will stay in the house until she is "toted out foot foremost"? (2)
(a) Until she is arrested.
(b) Until the house burns down.
(c) Until she dies.
(d) Until she sells the house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Sykes declares how tired he is of Delia and leaves the house, what does he do on his way out?

3. What "habitual" character trait of Delia's seems "to slip from her shoulders" (1) after Sykes threatens her with physical violence?

4. In what season does the story entitled "Sweat" begin?

5. When one of the men's wives had repelled Sykes's advances, she had told him that Delia worked so hard that she bet everything in the house tasted like sweat and what?

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