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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the dress Dee wears for her reunion with her mother and sister?
(a) Red.
(b) Orange and yellow.
(c) Black and white plaid.
(d) Blue.

2. Which character in "Everyday Use" goes to school in Augusta on money Ms. Johnson and her church raise?
(a) John Thomas.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Dee.
(d) Maggie.

3. What do Ms. Johnson and Maggie do after Wangero and her boyfriend leave?
(a) Start a new quilt.
(b) Sit in the yard enjoying themselves until bedtime.
(c) Eat dessert.
(d) Gossip about Wangero.

4. Which character in "Everyday Use" doesn't read well due to poor eyesight?
(a) Ms. Johnson.
(b) Aunt Dicie.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Grandma Dee.

5. Who asks Ms. Johnson for the family's butter churn top?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Wangero.
(c) John Thomas.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

6. Who makes the dining benches on which the Johnsons and Hakim-a-barber sit during dinner?
(a) Uncle Buddy.
(b) Dee's brother.
(c) Dee's father.
(d) Stash.

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

8. What is Ms. Johnson's marital state?
(a) The story never reveals this fact.
(b) Divorced.
(c) Separated.
(d) Married.

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

10. At the end of the story, what quilts does Ms. Johnson tell Dee to take back to the city with her?
(a) The hand-stitched ones Grandma Dee pieced.
(b) One or two of the machine-stitched ones.
(c) The ones on Ms. Johnson's bed.
(d) Two on Maggie's bed that need washing.

11. After dinner, who goes into Ms. Johnson's room and riffles through the trunk at the foot of Ms. Johnson's bed?
(a) Ms. Johnson.
(b) Hakim-a-barber.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Wangero.

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

13. Which Johnson family women quilts the quilt tops that Grandma Dee pieces?
(a) Aunt Cassie and Maggie.
(b) Great Grandma Dee and Aunt Dicie.
(c) Cousin Celie and Cousin Jill.
(d) Ms. Johnson and her sister, Aunt Dicie or Big Dee.

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

15. Which character in "Everyday Use" delights in the chitlins and corn bread, greens and sweet potatoes Ms. Johnson serves for dinner during Dee's visit?
(a) John Thomas.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ms. Johnson think Dee's companion does for a living because of his name?

3. How long is Dee's dress when she exits the car?

4. When their school closes after the second grade, why don't the local Blacks protest?

5. Which of the following characters are mentioned in "Everyday Use" but do not actually appear on stage?

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