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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of the Johnson family always criticizes the others?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Dee.
(c) Grandma Dee.
(d) Ms. Johnson.

2. How does Dee respond when her mother asks her what happened to Dee?
(a) She says Dee's dead.
(b) She says Hakim-a-barber hates the name Dee.
(c) She says Dee is wanted by the IRS.
(d) She says Dee is wanted by the police.

3. Where does "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker take place?
(a) New York City.
(b) Rural Ohio.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Rural Georgia, near Augusta.

4. How does Maggie respond to the attempts to shake her hand?
(a) She keeps trying to pull her limp, sweating hand back.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She shakes hands heartily.
(d) She screams.

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

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

7. How many children does Ms. Johnson have?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

8. What noises tell Ms. Johnson someone is standing outside the room in which she and Wangero are?
(a) The radio comes on.
(b) The television set comes on.
(c) Maggie's breathing.
(d) Maggies footsteps.

9. Which character in "Everyday Use" refuses to eat collard greens and considers pork unclean?
(a) Wangero.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Grandma Dee.
(d) Maggie.

10. Who is the protagonist in "Everyday Use?"
(a) Ms. Johnson.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Aunt Dicie.
(d) Dee.

11. What kind of jobs has Ms. Johnson always done well?
(a) Clerical jobs.
(b) Man's farm work like butchering and milking.
(c) Housekeeping or maid jobs.
(d) Nursing jobs.

12. Who asks Ms. Johnson for the butter churn dasher?
(a) Hakim-a-barber.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Maggie.
(d) John Thomas.

13. What does Wangero feel on the benches when she runs her hands along them?
(a) Chips in the wood.
(b) Splinters.
(c) Rump prints.
(d) The smooth surface of the varnished wood.

14. Which character in "Everyday Use" has burn scars?
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Grandma Dee.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

15. Which character in "Everyday Use" always looks anyone in the eye because hesitation is not part of her nature?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Ms. Johnson.
(c) Dee.
(d) Aunt Dicie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wangero find in her mother's trunk?

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

3. When Ms. Johnson snatches Grandma Dee's quilts from Wangero's hands, into whose hands does she place them?

4. Who escapes unharmed from the tragedy that befell the old Johnson house?

5. What does Ms. Johnson believe Maggie thinks her portion from God is?

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