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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who says Wangero can have the quilts after Ms. Johnson says Wangero can't?
(a) John Thomas.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Grandpa Jarrell.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

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

4. When Ms. Johnson offers Dee a quilt in the past, what is Dee's reaction?
(a) She wants to learn to quilt herself.
(b) She loves the idea, takes the quilt and asks for more.
(c) She doesn't want it because it is old-fashioned.
(d) She does't want it because it is too plain.

5. What keeps Ms. Johnson hot in zero weather?
(a) Two warm quilts.
(b) Her fat.
(c) A warm fire in her fireplace.
(d) Woolen longjohns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Johnsons have dining benches instead of dining chairs?

2. In what patterns are the two quilts Wangero finds in the trunk sewn?

3. What is the socioeconomic status of Ms. Johnson in "Everyday Use?"

4. When Ms. Johnson finds Wangero's name hard to pronounce, what does Wangero say?

5. What scraps of Grandpa Jarrell's clothes are in the quilts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How strong is Ms. Johnson physically and what might her physical strength indicate about her inner strength?

2. Is there any significance to the fact that neither Ms. Johnson's marital state nor Dee's are revealed in "Everyday Use?"

3. Why does Dee change her name to Wangero in "Everyday Use?"

4. Explain Dee's feelings about white people.

5. How do African Americans change from the days of Ms. Johnson's youth in the 1920s to the era of the 1960s in which the story "Everyday People" is set?

6. Why does Ms. Johnson agree to call Dee by the African name Wangero after reminding Dee of the family heritage behind her birth name?

7. What kind of life has Ms. Johnson lived?

8. What happens when Dee tries to share her educational knowledge with her mother and sister?

9. When Ms. Johnson gives Grandma Dee's hand-stitched quilts to Maggie, how does each Johnson sister in "Everyday Use" react?

10. Describe Dee's relationship with Jimmy T and what it indicates about her.

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