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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 respond when her mother asks her what happened to Dee?
(a) She says Dee is wanted by the police.
(b) She says Dee's dead.
(c) She says Dee is wanted by the IRS.
(d) She says Hakim-a-barber hates the name Dee.

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

3. Which Johnson family member possesses the most self confidence?
(a) Ms. Johnson.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Grandpa Jarrell.
(d) Dee.

4. Who asks Ms. Johnson for the butter churn dasher?
(a) John Thomas.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Wangero.
(d) Maggie.

5. Which of the following statements is not true about what happens on the television talk shows that inspire Ms. Johnson's dreams?
(a) The children thank the parents for helping them succeed.
(b) Children who have made it are surprised by their parents.
(c) The children and parents embrace and smile and cry.
(d) Unsuccessful children greet their unhappy parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wraps Ms. Johnson's dasher right there at the dinner table?

2. 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?

3. Who learns to quilt from Grandma Dee and Aunt Dicie/Big Dee?

4. After dinner, who goes into Ms. Johnson's room and riffles through the trunk at the foot of Ms. Johnson's bed?

5. How far back can Ms. Johnson trace her family tree?

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