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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ms. Johnson remember from the tragedy that befell her home ten to twelve years earlier?
(a) Dee's terror.
(b) Holding Maggie with her smoking hair and peeling dress.
(c) How the neighbors helped with the tragedy.
(d) The firemen working to put out the flames.

2. What does Wangero plan to do with the quilts?
(a) Donate them to a museum.
(b) Hang them as art on her walls.
(c) Use them on her beds.
(d) Use them as curtains.

3. Which of the following characters are mentioned in "Everyday Use" but do not actually appear on stage?
(a) Hakim-a-barber and Wangero.
(b) Grandma Dee, Aunt Dicie, and Grandpa Jarrell.
(c) Maggie and John Thomas.
(d) Great Grandpa Ezra, John Thomas, and Hakim-a-barber.

4. What animal does Ms. Johnson describe as "soothing and slow?"
(a) Horses.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cows.

5. How does Ms. Johnson describe Maggie's fiance?
(a) A man with mossy teeth in an earnest face.
(b) A handsome man with a mustache.
(c) A short, fat man with dimples.
(d) A tall man with thick glasses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wangero want the two quilts Grandma Dee pieced rather than the substitute gift her mother offers her?

2. What does Ms. Johnson do in church when the spirit of God touches her?

3. What is the nickname of the person who whittles Ms. Johnson's churn dasher?

4. What does Wangero tell Maggie to do at the end of the story?

5. What is the socioeconomic status of Ms. Johnson in "Everyday Use?"

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