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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Johnsons have dining benches instead of dining chairs?
(a) Ms. Johnson finds chairs uncomfortable to sit on.
(b) They can't afford chairs.
(c) They don't like chairs.
(d) Dee's father doesn't know how to make chairs.

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

3. Which Johnson family member possesses the most self confidence?
(a) Dee.
(b) Grandpa Jarrell.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Ms. Johnson.

4. What happens to Ms. Johnson in 1949?
(a) She contracts polio.
(b) She has a heart attack.
(c) She gets hooked in the side by a cow.
(d) She is in a car wreck.

5. What does Ms. Johnson remember from the tragedy that befell her home ten to twelve years earlier?
(a) The firemen working to put out the flames.
(b) Dee's terror.
(c) Holding Maggie with her smoking hair and peeling dress.
(d) How the neighbors helped with the tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What scraps of Grandpa Jarrell's clothes are in the quilts?

2. When Ms. Johnson finds Wangero's name hard to pronounce, what does Wangero say?

3. What do Ms. Johnson and Maggie do after Wangero and her boyfriend leave?

4. On what occasion has Ms. Johnson offered Dee a quilt in the past?

5. How is the weather when Dee comes to visit her family?

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