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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 the character who goes to school in Augusta try to share her knowledge with the rest of the family?
(a) She invites them to her school recitals.
(b) She encourages them to enroll in college.
(c) She loans them her textbooks.
(d) She reads to them.

2. On the television show in her dreams, what does Ms. Johnson look like?
(a) She's thin with a light complexion and glistening hair.
(b) She's tall and plump with a gray Afro.
(c) She's short and dark with glasses and white hair.
(d) She's tall and dark with lots of jewels and furs.

3. At the end of the story, what quilts does Ms. Johnson tell Dee to take back to the city with her?
(a) One or two of the machine-stitched ones.
(b) The ones on Ms. Johnson's bed.
(c) The hand-stitched ones Grandma Dee pieced.
(d) Two on Maggie's bed that need washing.

4. Which member of the Johnson family always criticizes the others?
(a) Grandma Dee.
(b) Dee.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Maggie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hangs in the kitchen doing dishes after the Johnsons' reunion dinner?

2. To whom does Ms. Johnson promise to give the quilts Grandma Dee pieced?

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

4. What does Ms. Johnson remember from the tragedy that befell her home ten to twelve years earlier?

5. What does Ms. Johnson think that Dee had at age sixteen?

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