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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the name of the story's protagonist?
Bertha from Apopka
Delia Jones
Sykes Jones
Elijah Mosely
- 2. Multiple Choice
At the beginning of the story, what did Sykes use to scare Delia?
his bull whip
his belt
a rope
a rattlesnake
- 3. Multiple Choice
How long had Delia and Sykes been married?
for 10 years
for 15 years
for 20 years
for 12 years
- 4. Multiple Choice
"Delia's habitual meekness seemed to slip from her shoulders like a blown scarf" uses which literary technique?
allusion
metaphor
personificiation
simile
- 5. Multiple Choice
What household item did Delia pick up and threaten Sykes with?
rolling pin
hammer
iron skillet
butcher knife
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which is NOT something that Sykes did to Delia by the time they had been married for one year?
brutally beat her
cheated on her
gambled all of their money
brought a snake home
- 7. Multiple Choice
"Oh well, whatever goes over the Devil's back, is got to come under his belly. Sometime or ruther, Sykes, like everybody else, is gointer reap his sowing" can be used to illustrate which literary devices/techniques?
theme and foreshadowing
theme and flashback
allusion and metaphor
foreshadowing and personification
- 8. Multiple Choice
What did Sykes love about Bertha?
she was skinny
she was rich
she was white
she was fat
- 9. Multiple Choice
What comparison did Clarke make when he was describing the way some men treat a good woman?
He compares them to a pile of laundry.
He compares them to a joint of sugar cane.
He compares them to the devil.
He compares them to the alligator in the lake.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What does Old Man Anderson say happened that made Sykes think he's better than them? ("biggety")
He beat up Delia.
He brought home a rattlesnake.
He brought Bertha to the store in front of Delia.
He learned to drive an automobile.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who said this and to whom was it said? - "Dis is mah town an' you sho' kin have it."
Sykes said it to Delia
Bertha said it to Sykes
Sykes said it to Bertha
Joe said it to Delia
- 12. Multiple Choice
What does Delia call the snake?
Ol' Satan
Ol' Devil
Demon
Satan Sykes
- 13. Multiple Choice
Where does Delia run to when she finds the snake in the laundry basket?
to the white people to tell them what Sykes did
into town to get the men at Joe's to kill it
up into the hay barn
up into the tallest tree in the yard
- 14. Multiple Choice
When Delia is in the barn she experiences, "A period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both. Out of this an awful calm." What literary technique is this?
flashback - something that happened earlier
foreshadowing - a hint of something to come
allusion - an indirect reference to something reader should know
epiphany - a moment of self-realization
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which literary techniques are being used here? "...where she waited in the growing heat while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up..."
imagery, metaphor and personification
allusion, simile and personification
imagery, allusion and metaphor
allusion, metaphor and personification
- 16. Multiple Choice
When the narrator said "...to extinguish that eye which must know by now that she knew," what could that mean? (select BOTH possible answers)
that Sykes died knowing that Delia wanted him dead because she didn't help him
that Sykes knew he was going to die
that Sykes died knowing that Delia knew he intended to kill her with the snake
that Sykes knew that Delia knew he had let Bertha in her house
- 17. Multiple Choice
The passage, “his whole manner hoping, praying, for an argument,” implies that
Sykes wants an excuse to hit Delia
Sykes wants an excuse to go see his girlfriend
Sykes likes arguing because he’s a smooth talker
All of the above.
- 18. Multiple Choice
Delia is bothered by Syke’s new mistress because
She is bolder than the rest.
She is much prettier than the rest.
Her husband is falling in love with her.
She used to be her best friend.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Sykes complains about Delia’s job because
He is religious and he doesn’t want his wife to work on Sundays.
He resents the fact that she washes white folk’s clothes.
He feels that she doesn’t need to work.
It bothers him to see his wife work so hard.
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following proverbs best describes the moral of the story?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
All good things come to he who waits.
All’s fair in love and war.
What goes around, comes around
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