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

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) Maggie's wedding to John Thomas.
(b) Maggie's birthday.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

2. What does Ms. Johnson remember from the tragedy that befell her home ten to twelve years earlier?
(a) The firemen working to put out the flames.
(b) Dee's terror.
(c) Holding Maggie with her smoking hair and peeling dress.
(d) How the neighbors helped with the tragedy.

3. Who makes the sounds in the kitchen?
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Grandma Dee.

4. Who whittles Ms. Johnson's butter churn dasher?
(a) Uncle Henry.
(b) Great Grandpa Ezra.
(c) Uncle Buddy.
(d) Grandpa Jarrell.

5. What has Ms. Johnson done to her yard at the beginning of the story?
(a) Mowed it.
(b) Mulched it.
(c) Cleaned and swept it like a floor.
(d) Planted flowers in it.

6. To what does Dee change her name?
(a) Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo.
(b) Kenisha Jackson.
(c) Raelene Jordan.
(d) Ariella Candace Jones.

7. In what point of view is "Everyday Use" told?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person.

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

9. Who overhears Wangero and Ms. Johnson discussing the quilts?
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Grandpa Jarrell.
(d) Grandma Dee.

10. How does Ms. Johnson describe Maggie's fiance?
(a) A tall man with thick glasses.
(b) A handsome man with a mustache.
(c) A man with mossy teeth in an earnest face.
(d) A short, fat man with dimples.

11. Who fills her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff at the end of "Everyday Use?"
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) Ms. Johnson.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Wangero.

12. In what is the Johnson home located?
(a) A former Civil War battlefield.
(b) A former Revolutionary War battlefield.
(c) A big Augusta, Georgia subdivision.
(d) A pasture.

13. Who hates the current Johnson house as well as the old Johnson house?
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) Grandma Dee.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Dee.

14. What is the socioeconomic status of Ms. Johnson in "Everyday Use?"
(a) She's poor.
(b) She's middle class.
(c) She's rich.
(d) She's a slave.

15. What does Ms. Johnson think that Dee had at age sixteen?
(a) Artistic talent.
(b) A great singing voice.
(c) A great speaking voice.
(d) A style of her own.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose hand closes over Grandma Dee's butter dish at dinner?

2. What is the first thing out of the car upon Dee's arrival that identifies Dee to Ms. Johnson?

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

4. What does Wangero feel on the benches when she runs her hands along them?

5. Who wraps Ms. Johnson's dasher right there at the dinner table?

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