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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the weather when Dee comes to visit her family?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Hot.
(c) Snowy.
(d) Foggy.

2. What is Dee's relationship to Maggie?
(a) They're sisters.
(b) They're friends.
(c) They're cousins.
(d) They're neighbors.

3. What does the person who wants the butter churn top tell Ms. Johnson she will do with it?
(a) Hang it on her wall.
(b) Make butter in it.
(c) Make it the centerpiece for her alcove table.
(d) Use it as a flower vase.

4. What does the person who wants the butter churn top slide over it as if trying to see how it will look in her own home?
(a) A dinner plate.
(b) A tablecloth.
(c) An arrangement of wildflowers.
(d) A dish towel.

5. Who is the first male character mentioned in "Everyday Use?"
(a) John Thomas.
(b) Johnny Carson.
(c) Grandpa Jarrell.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

6. Whose hand closes over Grandma Dee's butter dish at dinner?
(a) Hakim-a-barber's.
(b) Ms. Johnson's.
(c) Wangero's.
(d) Maggie's.

7. When their school closes after the second grade, why don't the local Blacks protest?
(a) Their children are needed on the farm instead of in school.
(b) In 1927 they ask fewer questions than they do now.
(c) There is little community support for reopening it.
(d) They fear violent repercussions.

8. What kind of jewelry does Dee wear for her reunion with her mother and sister?
(a) A ruby pendant.
(b) A silver wristwatch.
(c) Gold earrings and bracelets.
(d) Pear earrings.

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

10. What color is Ms. Johnson's butter churn dasher?
(a) Light yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Dark brown.
(d) Tan.

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

12. At the beginning of "Everyday Use," with whom is Ms. Johnson waiting in the yard?
(a) Grandma Dee.
(b) Big Dee.
(c) Her daughter, Maggie.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

13. What kind of windows does the current Johnson home have?
(a) Real glass windows.
(b) Big bay windows.
(c) It's windowless.
(d) Holes cut in the sides with shutters held by rawhide.

14. Who takes Polaroids of the Johnson family reunion?
(a) Mrs. Johnson.
(b) Dee.
(c) Hakim-a-barber.
(d) Maggie.

15. When Ms. Johnson finds Wangero's name hard to pronounce, what does Wangero say?
(a) Ms. Johnson can used the shortened version Wang.
(b) Ms. Johnson should practice saying it until she gets it right.
(c) Ms. Johnson could prounounce it if she were smarter.
(d) Ms. Johnson doesn't have to use it if she doesn't want to.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the story, what quilts does Ms. Johnson tell Dee to take back to the city with her?

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

3. Which Johnson women know how to quilt?

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

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

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