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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dee think the quilts will become rags in five years?
(a) They're old and fragile.
(b) Maggie will use them and wear them out.
(c) Exposing them to air after storage in the trunk will ruin them.
(d) Maggie's children will tear them.

2. What looks like a mule tail to Ms. Johnson when she sees Dee's male companion?
(a) The man's mustache.
(b) The hair hanging from the man's chin.
(c) The man's ponytail.
(d) The man's braid.

3. When Ms. Johnson snatches Grandma Dee's quilts from Wangero's hands, into whose hands does she place them?
(a) John Thomas's.
(b) Aunt Dicie's.
(c) Hakim-a-barber's.
(d) Maggie's.

4. Why does Wangero want the two quilts Grandma Dee pieced rather than the substitute gift her mother offers her?
(a) Grandma Dee pieced them.
(b) They're prettier.
(c) They're older.
(d) They're handstitched & the others are machine-stitched.

5. Who asks Ms. Johnson for the family's butter churn top?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Hakim-a-barber.
(d) John Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who stands under a gum tree and observes from a safe distance while tragedy strikes the old Johnson house a decade earlier?

3. Which Johnson family women quilts the quilt tops that Grandma Dee pieces?

4. Which character in "Everyday Use" has no education?

5. Who asks Ms. Johnson for the butter churn dasher?

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