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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 Dee look in comparison to Maggie?
(a) She's lighter in complexion with nicer hair and a fuller figure.
(b) She's taller and fatter.
(c) She's more freckled and wears thicker glasses.
(d) She's shorter and has more warts.

2. What does the person who wants the butter churn top tell Ms. Johnson she will do with it?
(a) Make it the centerpiece for her alcove table.
(b) Use it as a flower vase.
(c) Hang it on her wall.
(d) Make butter in it.

3. To whom does Ms. Johnson promise to give the quilts Grandma Dee pieced?
(a) Hakim-a-barber.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Wangero.
(d) Aunt Dicie.

4. When boys and girls hang around Dee in her youth, what does she do to entertain them?
(a) She plays records for them.
(b) She plays hopskotch with them.
(c) She sings to them.
(d) She reads to them.

5. How does the Johnson's current home different from their previous home?
(a) It has more land with it.
(b) It is larger.
(c) It has a tin roof instead of a shingle roof.
(d) It is smaller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ms. Johnson kill with a sledge hammer one winter?

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

3. In the story's first paragraph, to which room of the house does Ms. Johnson compare her yard, saying it's an extension of that room?

4. How long is Dee's dress when she exits the car?

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

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