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

2. How does Ms. Johnson describe Maggie's fiance?
(a) A short, fat man with dimples.
(b) A tall man with thick glasses.
(c) A man with mossy teeth in an earnest face.
(d) A handsome man with a mustache.

3. Who wraps Ms. Johnson's dasher right there at the dinner table?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

4. What kind of windows does the current Johnson home have?
(a) Big bay windows.
(b) Real glass windows.
(c) It's windowless.
(d) Holes cut in the sides with shutters held by rawhide.

5. What happens to the Johnson's previous house ten to twelve years before the events in "Everyday Use"?
(a) A tornado devastates it.
(b) The bank repossesses it.
(c) It burns to the ground.
(d) Termites and rats infest it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the winter, how does Ms. Johnson get water for washing?

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

4. How many rooms did the Johnsons' previous house have?

5. What does Dee want to match a green suit she makes from an old suit someone gives her mother?

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