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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ms. Johnson snatches the quilts from Wangero's hands, who sits on the bed with her mouth open in shock?
(a) Wangero.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Grandma Dee.
(d) Aunt Dicie.

2. What hairstyle is Dee wearing when she arrives at her family's home?
(a) Dreadlocks.
(b) She has shaved her head.
(c) A short Afro.
(d) Two long pigtails roped around her ears.

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

4. On what occasion has Ms. Johnson offered Dee a quilt in the past?
(a) When Dee left for college.
(b) The previous Christmas.
(c) Dee's high school graduation.
(d) Dee's eighteenth birthday.

5. Where are the family's quilt frames kept?
(a) The living room.
(b) The back yard.
(c) The front yard.
(d) The front porch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why advantage does Ms. Johnson think her substitute gift has over the quilts Wangero wants?

2. What does Ms. Johnson say could be done if the quilts do become rags in five years?

3. When Dee says "It's really a new day for us" at the end of the story, to whom is she referring?

4. At the beginning of "Everyday Use," what kind of tree does Ms. Johnson say she likes to sit outside and look up into while enjoying the breeze?

5. Who overhears Wangero and Ms. Johnson discussing the quilts?

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