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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ms. Johnson say could be done if the quilts do become rags in five years?
(a) Ms. Johnson could buy new quilts for Maggie.
(b) Maggie could buy new quilts.
(c) Ms. Johnson could knit Maggie some blankets.
(d) Maggie could make herself some new quilts.

2. What does the person who wants the butter churn dash tell Ms. Johnson she will do with it?
(a) She will use it as a flower vase.
(b) Something artistic that she hasn't yet determined.
(c) She will churn butter in it.
(d) She will donate it to a museum.

3. What is Ms. Johnson's marital state?
(a) The story never reveals this fact.
(b) Divorced.
(c) Married.
(d) Separated.

4. After dinner, who goes into Ms. Johnson's room and riffles through the trunk at the foot of Ms. Johnson's bed?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Wangero.

5. What drives Jimmy T, a former suitor, away from Dee?
(a) She isn't smart enough for him.
(b) She cheats on him.
(c) She criticizes him too much.
(d) She isn't rich enough for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ms. Johnson in 1949?

2. Why advantage does Ms. Johnson think her substitute gift has over the quilts Wangero wants?

3. In "Everyday Use," whose school closes after second grade?

4. What is the relationship of the person who whittles Ms. Johnson's butter churn dash to Aunt Dicie/Big Dee?

5. What hairstyle is Dee wearing when she arrives at her family's home?

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