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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What one thing does the person taking the Polaroids make sure is always included in each picture?
(a) Maggie.
(b) The Johnson house.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Dee.

3. Which Johnson women know how to quilt?
(a) Maggie, Ms. Johnson, Wangero and Aunt Dicie.
(b) Everyone but Wangero.
(c) Ms. Johnson, Wangero, and Grandma Dee.
(d) Maggie, Grandma Dee and Wangero.

4. What comes over Ms. Johnson at the end of the story when she sees Maggie looking at Wangero with fear?
(a) A great anger.
(b) A great joy.
(c) A great sorrow.
(d) A spiritual energy like one she sometimes feels in church.

5. What is the first thing out of the car upon Dee's arrival that identifies Dee to Ms. Johnson?
(a) Her leg.
(b) Her head.
(c) Her arm.
(d) Her purse.

6. What scrap of Great Grandpa Ezra's clothing is in the quilts?
(a) A piece of his old red flannel shirt.
(b) A piece of his wedding pants.
(c) A piece of his christening gown.
(d) A piece of his Civil War uniform.

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

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

9. What is the relationship of the person who whittles Ms. Johnson's butter churn dash to Aunt Dicie/Big Dee?
(a) He was her first husband.
(b) He was her grandfather.
(c) He was her father.
(d) He was her uncle.

10. Which character in "Everyday Use" doesn't read well due to poor eyesight?
(a) Ms. Johnson.
(b) Grandma Dee.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Aunt Dicie.

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

12. How does Ms. Johnson describe Dee's feet?
(a) Neat looking as if God shaped them with a certain style.
(b) Perfectly pedicured.
(c) Big with hairy toes.
(d) Small and dainty.

13. With what has Ms. Johnson primarily been concerned all her life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Milking cows.
(c) Sewing and quilting.
(d) Survival.

14. Who is the first male character to appear onstage in "Everyday Use?"
(a) Grandpa Jarrell.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Great Grandpa Ezra.
(d) John Thomas.

15. Why does Wangero want the two quilts Grandma Dee pieced rather than the substitute gift her mother offers her?
(a) They're prettier.
(b) They're older.
(c) Grandma Dee pieced them.
(d) They're handstitched & the others are machine-stitched.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Johnson family women quilts the quilt tops that Grandma Dee pieces?

2. In what is the Johnson home located?

3. Who stands under a gum tree and observes from a safe distance while tragedy strikes the old Johnson house a decade earlier?

4. Why does Dee think the quilts will become rags in five years?

5. How does Maggie react when Dee's companion moves forward to hug her?

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