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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what occasion is Ms. Johnson going to give the quilts to the person to whom she has promised them?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Maggie's wedding to John Thomas.
(c) Maggie's birthday.
(d) Easter.

2. What hairstyle is Dee wearing when she arrives at her family's home?
(a) Dreadlocks.
(b) Two long pigtails roped around her ears.
(c) She has shaved her head.
(d) A short Afro.

3. Who is the narrator of "Everyday Use?"
(a) Ms. Johnson.
(b) John Thomas.
(c) Wangero.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

4. How far back can Ms. Johnson trace her family tree?
(a) To the Civil War.
(b) To her great-grandmother.
(c) To her grandmother.
(d) Beyond the Civil War.

5. Whose name is twice as long and three times as hard as Wangero's in Ms. Johnson's opinion?
(a) Dee's pastor.
(b) Dee's college roommate.
(c) Dee's male companion.
(d) Dee's college professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fills her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff at the end of "Everyday Use?"

2. Who asks Ms. Johnson for the family's butter churn top?

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

4. To whom does Ms. Johnson always talk "With one foot raised in flight" and her head turned in whatever direction is farthest from them?

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

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