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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What adverb is used to indicate the manner in which Sykes pushes Delia when he wants her to see the rattlesnake he has brought home?
(a) Cunningly.
(b) Laughingly.
(c) Smartly.
(d) Knowingly.

3. What does the narrator say "pleased him for Delia to see" (4) when Sykes is ordering at Joe Clarke's store?
(a) His determination to ignore her.
(b) The spending of her money.
(c) His mistress accompanying him out in public.
(d) His flagrant abuse of her pony with his bullwhip.

4. What idiom does Sykes use to describe his suggested action for anyone who does not like the snake?
(a) Kiss his grits.
(b) Fly a kite.
(c) Hit the grit.
(d) Hit the dirt.

5. What adjective does Old Man Anderson use to describe his view of what kind of man Sykes had always been?
(a) Overbearing.
(b) Mean.
(c) Proud.
(d) Haughty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Delia do with the clothes after Sykes steps on them?

2. What kind of nuts had Sykes brought as a present to help him woo one of the men's wives?

3. On what night of the week does Delia stay up late in order to get a head start on her work?

4. What object does Delia credit with paying for the house she and Sykes live in?

5. When Delia is described as trying to avoid meeting places in town, what does the narrator say she is trying to accomplish?

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