For "Sweat", Question one was, "PART A: Which TWO statements best express major themes of the short story?"
The two answers were:
- "The consequences of people’s actions eventually catch up with them."
- "Compassion has its limits and can vanish as a result of abuse."

Question 2 asks, "Which TWO quotes from the text best support your answers to Part A?"

Answer choices are:

A. “‘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.’” ( Paragraph 26)

B. “‘It’s too bad, too, cause she wuz a right pritty lil trick when he got huh. Ah’d uh mah’ied huh mahseff if he hadnter beat me to it.’” ( Paragraph 34)

C. “‘since dat white ‘oman from up north done teached ‘im how to run a automobile, he done got too biggety to live — an’ we oughter kill ‘im’” ( Paragraph 41)

D. “Just then Delia drove past on her way home, as Sykes was ordering magnificently for Bertha. It pleased him for Delia to see.” ( Paragraph 47)

E. “She avoided the villagers and meeting places in her efforts to be blind and deaf.” ( Paragraph 55)

F. “‘Ah hates you tuh de same degree dat Ah useter love yuh. Ah done took an’ took till mah belly is full up tuh mah neck.’” ( Paragraph 75)