They were cleaning the dishes, the wife washing while the husband drying. The husband was not a real male chauvinist or a terrible ______ . He always assisted his wife with the housework and co-operated well with his ______ friends. But as for the matter of whether white people should man black people, he spoke out against his wife's view. His main argument was that they had different ______ backgrounds and therefore could never really know each other, leading most of those______to divorce. Later, his wife asked him if she had been a black woman, and they had loved each other, would her ______ color have prevented his marrying her? This time, he gave a ______ answer. The wife was angry and demonstrated her ______ to him. It hurt him and he went outside. Having calmed down, he ______ what he had done to his wife and apologized to her by ______ his former answer. However, when he turned off the light, lay in bed and waited for his wife, he had a feeling that the woman moving through the house was a ______.