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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 remember from the tragedy that befell her home ten to twelve years earlier?
(a) Holding Maggie with her smoking hair and peeling dress.
(b) How the neighbors helped with the tragedy.
(c) Dee's terror.
(d) The firemen working to put out the flames.

2. Which of the following characters are mentioned in "Everyday Use" but do not actually appear on stage?
(a) Maggie and John Thomas.
(b) Hakim-a-barber and Wangero.
(c) Great Grandpa Ezra, John Thomas, and Hakim-a-barber.
(d) Grandma Dee, Aunt Dicie, and Grandpa Jarrell.

3. What scraps of Grandpa Jarrell's clothes are in the quilts?
(a) Pieces of his Paisley shirts.
(b) Pieces of his overalls.
(c) Pieces of his flannel shirts.
(d) Pieces of his woolen longjohns.

4. During the winter, how does Ms. Johnson get water for washing?
(a) From her faucet.
(b) From bottled water she buys at the store in town.
(c) By breaking ice.
(d) From her farm's well.

5. Why does Dee think the quilts will become rags in five years?
(a) Exposing them to air after storage in the trunk will ruin them.
(b) Maggie's children will tear them.
(c) Maggie will use them and wear them out.
(d) They're old and fragile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claims to be able to remember Grandma Dee without the quilts?

2. Who whittles Ms. Johnson's churn top?

3. At the beginning of "Everyday Use," who does Ms. Johnson say will regard Dee with a mixture of envy and awe?

4. What does Ms. Johnson offer Wangero instead of the two quilts Grandma Dee pieced?

5. 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?

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