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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Ms. Johnson and Maggie do after Wangero and her boyfriend leave?
(a) Eat dessert.
(b) Gossip about Wangero.
(c) Sit in the yard enjoying themselves until bedtime.
(d) Start a new quilt.

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

4. In what point of view is "Everyday Use" told?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Second person.

5. Which character in "Everyday Use" refuses to eat collard greens and considers pork unclean?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Grandma Dee.
(d) Wangero.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ms. Johnson think Dee's companion does for a living because of his name?

3. When Ms. Johnson offers Dee a quilt in the past, what is Dee's reaction?

4. What does Ms. Johnson call Dee's companion in her thoughts?

5. Who is the protagonist in "Everyday Use?"

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