Everyday Use

Who is the narrator of "Everyday Use"?

• Dee
• Maggie
• Unidentified
• the mother

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Why does Dee change her name?

• She did not like her Aunt Dee
• Her boyfriend told her to
• She wanted to make Mamma mad
• So she won't have a white oppressor name

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is the conflict between Dee and Maggie over?

• the differences in their styles of clothes

• which quilt is worth the most money

• where their mother should live

• who will get the family’s quilts

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Dee and Maggie are foils or characters who different or opposed to each other in all of the following ways except which?

• Dee is intelligent while Maggie is not as bright
• Dee is physically strong and tough while Maggie is mentally strong.
• Dee is selfish while Maggie is selfless.
• Dee neglects her past while Maggie is loyal to her mom and home life.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

When Ms. Johnson offers Dee a quilt in the past, what was Dee's reaction?

• She gave it ways

• She didn't want it because it is old-fashioned.

• She threw it in the trash

• She sold them to a white lady for tuition

Mama gives the quilts to Maggie because she

• knows that Maggie has always liked colorful things

• thinks that Maggie can get a lot of money by selling them

• believes Maggie will treat them with more care than Dee will

• already has promised to give them to her when Maggie is ready for marriage

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.9

What do the churn, the quilt, and the Polaroids that Dee takes best symbolize to her?

• the Black Pride movement and empowerment popular in the 1960s and the AfricanAmerican voice over those who attempt to stifle it
• her family’s hard work and support of Dee, her education, and her upbringing
• relics from her family’s past and African-American culture that should be remembered but not used
• slavery and all of the atrocities that African-Americans endured over the years

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Whose visit is Mama waiting for at the beginning of the story?

• her son's

• her daughter's

• her mother's

• her father's

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

How does she feel about this visit?

• Anxious

• Excited

• Sad

• Angry

Which statement best describes the family's living situation?

• They live in poverty in a rural area.

• They live in poverty in an urban area.

• They are wealthy and live in a rural area.

• They are wealthy and live in an urban area.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3