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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ms. Johnson describe Dee's feet?
(a) Small and dainty.
(b) Perfectly pedicured.
(c) Big with hairy toes.
(d) Neat looking as if God shaped them with a certain style.

2. Who is Maggie's father?
(a) The story never reveals this fact.
(b) Stash.
(c) Hakim-a-barber.
(d) John Thomas.

3. To what does Wangero compare Maggie's brain when Maggie tells Hakim-a-barber who whittled the churn dash?
(a) A pea.
(b) A canteloupe.
(c) A piece of straw.
(d) An elephant's brain.

4. Which member of the Johnson family always criticizes the others?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Grandma Dee.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Dee.

5. Which Johnson women know how to quilt?
(a) Ms. Johnson, Wangero, and Grandma Dee.
(b) Everyone but Wangero.
(c) Maggie, Grandma Dee and Wangero.
(d) Maggie, Ms. Johnson, Wangero and Aunt Dicie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker take place?

2. In what patterns are the two quilts Wangero finds in the trunk sewn?

3. When their school closes after the second grade, why don't the local Blacks protest?

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

5. 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?

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