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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who learns to quilt from Grandma Dee and Aunt Dicie/Big Dee?
(a) Ms. Johnson.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Hakim-a-barber.
(d) Wangero.

2. Once Maggie weds, what is Ms. Johnson free to sit in her yard and do?
(a) Quilt.
(b) Plant corn.
(c) Raise flowers.
(d) Sing church songs.

3. What does Ms. Johnson say could be done if the quilts do become rags in five years?
(a) Maggie could make herself some new quilts.
(b) Maggie could buy new quilts.
(c) Ms. Johnson could knit Maggie some blankets.
(d) Ms. Johnson could buy new quilts for Maggie.

4. How many sons does Ms. Johnson have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

5. Who makes the dining benches on which the Johnsons and Hakim-a-barber sit during dinner?
(a) Stash.
(b) Dee's brother.
(c) Dee's father.
(d) Uncle Buddy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Maggie's father?

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

3. What animal does Ms. Johnson describe as "soothing and slow?"

4. What unpleasant truth does Ms. Johnson say Maggie realizes about herself?

5. What keeps Ms. Johnson hot in zero weather?

(see the answer key)

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