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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ms. Johnson snatches Grandma Dee's quilts from Wangero's hands, into whose hands does she place them?
(a) Maggie's.
(b) Hakim-a-barber's.
(c) John Thomas's.
(d) Aunt Dicie's.

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

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

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

5. What happens to Ms. Johnson in 1949?
(a) She has a heart attack.
(b) She contracts polio.
(c) She gets hooked in the side by a cow.
(d) She is in a car wreck.

6. Who is Dee's father?
(a) Uncle Buddy.
(b) The story never reveals this fact.
(c) Grandpa Jarrell.
(d) Great Grandpa Ezra.

7. Why do the Johnsons have dining benches instead of dining chairs?
(a) Ms. Johnson finds chairs uncomfortable to sit on.
(b) Dee's father doesn't know how to make chairs.
(c) They don't like chairs.
(d) They can't afford chairs.

8. How many Johnson women are Dee?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

9. Which Johnson women know how to quilt?
(a) Ms. Johnson, Wangero, and Grandma Dee.
(b) Maggie, Grandma Dee and Wangero.
(c) Maggie, Ms. Johnson, Wangero and Aunt Dicie.
(d) Everyone but Wangero.

10. Which of the following characters are mentioned in "Everyday Use" but do not actually appear on stage?
(a) Hakim-a-barber and Wangero.
(b) Maggie and John Thomas.
(c) Great Grandpa Ezra, John Thomas, and Hakim-a-barber.
(d) Grandma Dee, Aunt Dicie, and Grandpa Jarrell.

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

12. In what point of view is "Everyday Use" told?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person omniscient.

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

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

15. Who in the Johnson family had the name Dee before Dee and the woman for whom Dee was named?
(a) A great aunt.
(b) Grandma Dee and her mother, Great Grandma Dee.
(c) A first cousin.
(d) Ms. Johnson's mother-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dee want to match a green suit she makes from an old suit someone gives her mother?

2. What does Dee's companion end up asking the family to call him?

3. What is Ms. Johnson's religion?

4. What does Ms. Johnson remember from the tragedy that befell her home ten to twelve years earlier?

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

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