Everyday Use

1. PART A: Which of the following best identifies the main theme of the text?

• Sometimes adopting a new heritage can result in the rejection of a person’s true heritage and family history.

• A person must understand their family history before they can truly understand themselves.

• The modern world often demands that people change, whether they want to or not.

• Physical objects can often oQer people a connection to their family history and family members who have passed.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

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PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• Pressed us to her with the serious ways she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.” (Paragraph 10)

• “You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood.” (Paragraph 54)

• “‘These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!’” (Paragraph 62)

• “I didn’t want to bring up how I had offered Dee... a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style.” (Paragraph 69)

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

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PART A: What prompts the narrator to refuse to give Dee the quilts she wants?

• She knows that Dee doesn’t want the quilts to remember her grandmother.

• She realizes that she has been neglecting Maggie.

• She is tired of being pushed around by Dee.

• She realizes that Maggie never gets what she deserves.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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PART B: Which section from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “She had Mlled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuQ, and it gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look.” (Paragraph 76)

• “She looked at her sister with something like fear, but she wasn’t mad at her. This was Maggie’s portion. This was the way she knew God to work.” (Paragraph 76)

• “When I looked at her like that, something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet.” (Paragraph 77)

• “I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room” (Paragraph 77)

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

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What does the phrase “the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye” suggest about Dee? (Paragraph 14)

• Her sense of humor is hurtful.

• She has a boring sense of humor.

• She doesn’t often show her funny side.

• Her sense of humor is difficult to understand.

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