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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 the person who wants the butter churn top tell Ms. Johnson she will do with it?
(a) Make it the centerpiece for her alcove table.
(b) Hang it on her wall.
(c) Make butter in it.
(d) Use it as a flower vase.

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

3. To whom does Ms. Johnson promise to give the quilts Grandma Dee pieced?
(a) Wangero.
(b) Aunt Dicie.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

4. Which Johnson women know how to quilt?
(a) Maggie, Grandma Dee and Wangero.
(b) Maggie, Ms. Johnson, Wangero and Aunt Dicie.
(c) Everyone but Wangero.
(d) Ms. Johnson, Wangero, and Grandma Dee.

5. What keeps Ms. Johnson hot in zero weather?
(a) Two warm quilts.
(b) Woolen longjohns.
(c) Her fat.
(d) A warm fire in her fireplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stands under a gum tree and observes from a safe distance while tragedy strikes the old Johnson house a decade earlier?

2. In real life, what does Ms. Johnson look like?

3. What kind of jobs has Ms. Johnson always done well?

4. In Ms. Johnson's dreams, on what television program are she and Dee brought together?

5. How many characters in "Everyday Use" own cars?

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