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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After whom does Ms. Johnson name Dee?
(a) A good friend.
(b) An old neighbor.
(c) Aunt Dicie, Ms. Johnson's sister and Dee's aunt.
(d) A cousin.

2. How does Ms. Johnson describe Maggie's fiance?
(a) A short, fat man with dimples.
(b) A tall man with thick glasses.
(c) A man with mossy teeth in an earnest face.
(d) A handsome man with a mustache.

3. In Ms. Johnson's dreams, what does Dee pin on her dress on the television program?
(a) A sterling silver cross.
(b) An orchid.
(c) A ruby brooch.
(d) A rose.

4. What hairstyle is Dee wearing when she arrives at her family's home?
(a) She has shaved her head.
(b) Dreadlocks.
(c) Two long pigtails roped around her ears.
(d) A short Afro.

5. What is the socioeconomic status of Ms. Johnson in "Everyday Use?"
(a) She's rich.
(b) She's poor.
(c) She's a slave.
(d) She's middle class.

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

7. Which of the following is not in a Polaroid of the Johnson family reunion?
(a) Maggie.
(b) A cow.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) Dee.

8. At the beginning of "Everyday Use," with whom is Ms. Johnson waiting in the yard?
(a) Her daughter, Maggie.
(b) Grandma Dee.
(c) Hakim-a-barber.
(d) Big Dee.

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

10. Who overhears Wangero and Ms. Johnson discussing the quilts?
(a) Grandpa Jarrell.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Aunt Dicie.
(d) Grandma Dee.

11. What does Ms. Johnson do in church when the spirit of God touches her?
(a) She reads aloud from her Bible.
(b) She prays aloud.
(c) She gets happy and shouts.
(d) She gives a sermon.

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

13. Why does Wangero want the two quilts Grandma Dee pieced rather than the substitute gift her mother offers her?
(a) They're older.
(b) Grandma Dee pieced them.
(c) They're handstitched & the others are machine-stitched.
(d) They're prettier.

14. How many characters in "Everyday Use" own cars?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) None.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dress does Dee wear to her graduation?

2. Who claims to be able to remember Grandma Dee without the quilts?

3. What facial expression does Maggie have after her sister leaves?

4. On what occasion has Ms. Johnson offered Dee a quilt in the past?

5. How does Dee look in comparison to Maggie?

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