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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the protagonist in "Everyday Use?"
(a) Dee.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Aunt Dicie.

2. In real life, what does Ms. Johnson look like?
(a) She's large and big-boned with rough, man-working hands.
(b) She's white-haired and petite.
(c) She's freckled and has blonde hair.
(d) She's skinny and short.

3. Who asks Ms. Johnson for the family's butter churn top?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) John Thomas.
(d) Wangero.

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

5. Who says Wangero can have the quilts after Ms. Johnson says Wangero can't?
(a) Hakim-a-barber.
(b) Grandpa Jarrell.
(c) John Thomas.
(d) Maggie.

Short Answer Questions

1. When boys and girls hang around Dee in her youth, what does she do to entertain them?

2. Who puts on a pair of sunglasses at the end of "Everyday Use"?

3. What does the person who wants the butter churn dash tell Ms. Johnson she will do with it?

4. What does Ms. Johnson kill with a sledge hammer one winter?

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

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