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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. To whom does Ms. Johnson promise to give the quilts Grandma Dee pieced?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Aunt Dicie.
(d) Hakim-a-barber.

2. Who escapes unharmed from the tragedy that befell the old Johnson house?
(a) Aunt Dicie.
(b) John Thomas.
(c) Dee and Ms. Johnson.
(d) Maggie.

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

4. Who stands under a gum tree and observes from a safe distance while tragedy strikes the old Johnson house a decade earlier?
(a) Dee.
(b) John Thomas.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Ms. Johnson.

5. Who is the narrator of "Everyday Use?"
(a) Hakim-a-barber.
(b) Wangero.
(c) Ms. Johnson.
(d) John Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wangero find in her mother's trunk?

2. Why does Dee change her name?

3. How does Ms. Johnson describe Maggie's fiance?

4. Who learns to quilt from Grandma Dee and Aunt Dicie/Big Dee?

5. How many quilts does Dee/Wangero take back to the city with her at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dee differ from her mother and sister?

2. To whom is Dee referring when she says "It's really a new day for us" at the end of the story?

3. What does the way Maggie walks and carries herself indicate?

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

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

6. Why does Ms. Johnson's clean her yard prior to Dee's visit at the beginning of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use?"

7. Why are the hairstyles of Hakim-a-barber and Dee/Wangero described in such detail in the story while Maggie and Ms. Johnson's hairstyles are not described?

8. What do the Johnson family heirlooms like the butter churn and patchwork quilts indicate about the Johnson family and about southern Black culture?

9. What references to racial prejudice are there in "Everyday Use?"

10. Who is the protagonist of "Everyday Use" and what identifies that character as the protagonist?

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