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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Delia's pose when she picks up the object after Sykes threatens to hit her?
2. Against what object does Sykes strike his match?
3. When Sykes laughs at Delia for being scared of the bullwhip, what physical movement does he make?
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. For how long is Delia unable to speak when she feels the bullwhip across her shoulders?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways do the men on Joe Clarke's porch express contempt for Sykes?
2. Before Delia's decision to stand up to Sykes by raising the iron skillet in a defensive pose, how does she react to his verbal abuse?
3. In what ways does Sykes's character emerge within the story's very first featured encounter between Sykes and Delia?
4. At what point does the author show the first change in Delia's character and how does she portray this change?
5. What does Sykes's bullwhip symbolize within the story?
6. How does the author make a change in Delia's speech in order to portray her newly-won defiance toward Sykes and his attempts to control her?
7. Why does Delia's knowledge that Sykes is out with her pony and carriage worry her?
8. How does Sykes react to Delia's questions whenever she asks him a question?
9. How does the author depict Sykes as being childish?
10. What is the reason for the listlessness of the men who gather on Joe Clarke's porch?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the cycle of domestic violence portrayed within the short story Sweat?
Essay Topic 2
What is signified by Delia's worry that Sykes is out with her horse and carriage at the start of the story and how does her worry relate to the themes inherent in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how the author uses various characterization methods to depict the protagonist of the story, Delia.
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