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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the winter, what does Ms. Johnson wear during the day?
(a) Blue jeans and a flannel shirt.
(b) A cotton housedress.
(c) Longjohns.
(d) Overalls.

2. What facial expression does Maggie have after her sister leaves?
(a) A frown.
(b) One of ire.
(c) Tears.
(d) A smile.

3. What is the relationship of the person who whittles Ms. Johnson's butter churn top to Aunt Dicie/Big Dee?
(a) He was her second husband.
(b) He was her grandfather.
(c) He was her father.
(d) He was her brother.

4. 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) The firemen working to put out the flames.
(c) Dee's terror.
(d) Holding Maggie with her smoking hair and peeling dress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dee think the quilts will become rags in five years?

2. What color is the dress Dee wears for her reunion with her mother and sister?

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

4. Whose name is twice as long and three times as hard as Wangero's in Ms. Johnson's opinion?

5. What color is Ms. Johnson's butter churn dasher?

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