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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scraps of Grandma Dee's clothing are in the quilts?
(a) Pieces of dresses Grandma Dee wore over 50 years ago.
(b) Pieces of her old aprons.
(c) Pieces of her old pillow cases.
(d) Pieces of her old flannel nightgowns.

2. How does the man who emerges from the car with Dee wear his hair?
(a) He shaves his head.
(b) Short.
(c) In cornrows.
(d) Long.

3. What does Wangero find in her mother's trunk?
(a) Two quilts pieced by Grandma Dee.
(b) Embroidered pillow cases.
(c) Her old baby clothes.
(d) Old family photos.

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

5. After dinner, who goes into Ms. Johnson's room and riffles through the trunk at the foot of Ms. Johnson's bed?
(a) Hakim-a-barber.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Ms. Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Ms. Johnson done to her yard at the beginning of the story?

2. Who says Wangero can have the quilts after Ms. Johnson says Wangero can't?

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

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

5. From where does the wood that gives Ms. Johnson's dasher its color come?

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