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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When boys and girls hang around Dee in her youth, what does she do to entertain them?
(a) She reads to them.
(b) She plays records for them.
(c) She sings to them.
(d) She plays hopskotch with them.

2. What scraps of Grandpa Jarrell's clothes are in the quilts?
(a) Pieces of his overalls.
(b) Pieces of his woolen longjohns.
(c) Pieces of his flannel shirts.
(d) Pieces of his Paisley shirts.

3. To whom does Ms. Johnson promise to give the quilts Grandma Dee pieced?
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

4. Who is Maggie's father?
(a) John Thomas.
(b) Stash.
(c) The story never reveals this fact.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maggie marry?

2. Who is Dee's father?

3. How many rooms did the Johnsons' previous house have?

4. What kind of windows does the current Johnson home have?

5. What does Ms. Johnson ask Maggie to bring her at the end of the story?

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