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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 Ms. Johnson describe the man who emerges from the car with Dee?
(a) Tall and fat.
(b) Tall and thin with a big mustache.
(c) Short and stocky with hair all over his head and chin.
(d) Short and thin with big glasses.

2. What does Ms. Johnson kill with a sledge hammer one winter?
(a) A rat.
(b) A bull calf.
(c) A hog.
(d) A wolf.

3. When their school closes after the second grade, why don't the local Blacks protest?
(a) They fear violent repercussions.
(b) There is little community support for reopening it.
(c) Their children are needed on the farm instead of in school.
(d) In 1927 they ask fewer questions than they do now.

4. Who in the Johnson family had the name Dee before Dee and the woman for whom Dee was named?
(a) Ms. Johnson's mother-in-law.
(b) Grandma Dee and her mother, Great Grandma Dee.
(c) A first cousin.
(d) A great aunt.

5. What color is the dress Dee wears for her reunion with her mother and sister?
(a) Orange and yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Black and white plaid.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the winter, what does Ms. Johnson wear during the day?

2. What is the nickname of the person who whittles Ms. Johnson's churn dasher?

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

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

5. In what patterns are the two quilts Wangero finds in the trunk sewn?

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