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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Dee's companion do for a living?
(a) He is a politician.
(b) He is a physician.
(c) He is a college professor.
(d) The story does not reveal this information.

4. From where does the wood that gives Ms. Johnson's dasher its color come?
(a) Augusta.
(b) The woods behind Grandma Dee's house.
(c) Africa.
(d) A tree that grew in the yard where Big Dee and Stash lived.

5. Who tells Ms. Johnson she doesn't understand her heritage?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Hakim-a-barber.
(d) Aunt Dicie.

6. In "Everyday Use," whose school closes after second grade?
(a) Ms. Johnson's.
(b) Maggie's.
(c) John Thomas's.
(d) Dee's.

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

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

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

10. How far back can Ms. Johnson trace her family tree?
(a) Beyond the Civil War.
(b) To her great-grandmother.
(c) To the Civil War.
(d) To her grandmother.

11. How does Hakim-a-barber feel about the group of people to which Ms. Johnson asks if he belongs?
(a) He disagrees with their doctrines.
(b) He considers them allies.
(c) He shares their doctrines, but doesn't farm or raise cattle.
(d) He hates them.

12. During the winter, what does Ms. Johnson wear to bed?
(a) Flannel nightgowns.
(b) Men's pajamas.
(c) Longjohns.
(d) Blue jeans and a flannel shirt.

13. What does Jimmy T do soon after breaking up with Dee?
(a) Move to Atlanta.
(b) Marry another woman.
(c) Wreck his car.
(d) Enlist in the Army.

14. How many sons does Ms. Johnson have?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

15. Who escapes unharmed from the tragedy that befell the old Johnson house?
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) John Thomas.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Dee and Ms. Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Ms. Johnson done to her yard at the beginning of the story?

2. To what group of people does Ms. Johnson ask Hakim-a-barber if he belongs?

3. What does Ms. Johnson do in church when the spirit of God touches her?

4. What kind of soil comprises Ms. Johnson's yard?

5. What word does Ms. Johnson say the world never tells Dee?

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