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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. When Delia comes home and finds Sykes standing in the kitchen doorway, she says that her only two options are to stoop under his arm or to do what?
2. What two deity names does Delia yell out when she first lays eyes on the snake Sykes has brought home?
3. When Delia is described as trying to avoid meeting places in town, what does the narrator say she is trying to accomplish?
4. What simile does the narrator use to describe the snake's fangs curving into the covering of its soap box?
5. What does Sykes say Delia looks like to him when he tells Delia he has hated her for years?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Delia react once Sykes both refuses to remove the rattlesnake and threatens to beat her?
2. In what way does Sykes accuse Delia of being insincere about her fear of snakes when he brings home the rattlesnake?
3. How does Sykes use the occasion of bringing home the rattlesnake in order to once again attack Delia's physical appearance?
4. What is the significance of the snake baring its "scimitar" (6)-like fangs at Delia?
5. How are Delia's efforts to remain "blind and deaf" (5) to Sykes's adulterous actions thwarted?
6. What is Sykes's reply to Delia's insistence that he remove the rattlesnake from their home?
7. When Old Man Anderson suggests that the men kill Sykes, what is the men's reaction?
8. What does Sykes mean when he tells Delia not to ask him for anything and comments on her attempt to "goin' roun' trying 'tuh be so damn asterperious"? (6)
9. How does Delia try "to be blind and deaf" (5) to Sykes's gallivanting around town with Bertha?
10. What is Delia's reason for not trying to get rid of Bertha in some way in order to solve the problems in her marriage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What type of narrator is used within the short story Sweat and how does the narration contrast with the voices of the characters?
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of the first scene in the story when Sykes frightens Delia with his bullwhip?
Essay Topic 3
How is the cycle of domestic violence portrayed within the short story Sweat?
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