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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 word does the narrator use to describe Delia's thoughts about her garden?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Bountiful.
(c) Serene.
(d) Lovely.

2. When the scene shifts to the porch at the corner store for the first time, what month is it?
(a) December.
(b) April.
(c) February.
(d) July.

3. What kind of indifference does the narrator say Delia comes to feel about everything Sykes says or does after she realizes that his evil deeds will revisit him in the end?
(a) Tremendous.
(b) Uneasy.
(c) Triumphant.
(d) Bored.

4. What title does the narrator ascribe to Delia's job of doing other people's laundry?
(a) Laundress.
(b) Wash-woman.
(c) Maid.
(d) Tailor.

5. 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?
(a) If she has salted the stew.
(b) How the subject involves him.
(c) Whether dinner is ready.
(d) Where his share of the profits have gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does Sykes use to describe Delia just before he steps into the room where she is sorting laundry?

2. What kind of women does Sykes declare to Delia that he hates?

3. The narrator describes Delia as giving "a little scream of" (2) what when Sykes steps upon her laundry?

4. 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?

5. Who says he would have married Delia himself if Sykes had not beaten him to it?

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