Alice Walker

For what was Alice Walker Famous?

• Poems

• Fiction

• Fiction and Essays

• None of these

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Into how many languages. has Alice Walker's novels been translated?

• 1 dozen languages

• 3 dozen languages

• Half a dozen languages

• 2 dozen languages

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Which of the following excerpts from the text best conveys Myop's innocence?

• "Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family's sharecropper cabin, Myop walked along the fence till it ran into the stream..."

• "By twelve o'clock, her arms laden with sprigs of her findings, she was a mile or more from home."

• "She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song..."

• "Myop laid down her flowers."

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On PAGE 4, what do we learn about the quilts? [select all that apply]

• Dee once told the narrator they were "old-fashioned"

• The narrator has promised them to Maggie as a wedding present

• The quilts are made from "pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear"

• Maggie "can't remember Grandma without the quilts"

On the LAST PAGE, what does the narrator do? [select all that apply]

• "snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands"

• sits on the porch until bedtime

• "put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose"

• "sat there on my bed with her mouth open"

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What is the central conflict of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”?

• the cultural and personal struggle between Maggie and her mom vs. Dee

• the inner conflict between Dee vs. herself on whether she should claim what is rightfully hers

• the political and racial struggle of Maggie, her mom, and Dee vs. white society

• the socioeconomic clash between the poor and the rich

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Who is the narrator of "Everyday Use"?

• Dee

• Maggie

• Unidentified

• the mother

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What is Alice Walker best known for?

• Poetry

• Novels

• Essays

• Short Stories

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Which novel by Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

• The Color Purple

• Meridian

• The Third Life of Grange Copeland

• Possessing the Secret of Joy

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In which year was Alice Walker's novel 'The Color Purple' published?

• 1980

• 1982

• 1985

• 1987

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