Everyday Use

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

• She gave it ways
• She doesn't want it because it is old-fashioned.
• She threw it in the trash
• She sold them to a white lady for tuition

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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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Which of the following can you infer about Maggie?

• She is eager to see her sister.

• She misses the old house.

• She’s been unsure of herself for years.

• She will soon sell the quilts.

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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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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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When is the main conflict of the story resolved?

• Mama takes the quilts from Maggie and gives them to Dee
• The quilt rips and falls to the ground
• Dee steals the quilts and drives off
• Mama takes the quilts from Dee and gives them to Maggie

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"Everyday Use" is set in

• Old South Alabama
• Old South Georgia
• Old South Mississippi
• Old South Florida

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Dee wants the old family quilts because

• new quilts are too expensive, and she cannot afford to buy them

• they represent her family’s history and remind her of her ancestors

• she wants only handmade articles for her home

• they include all the colors she has used in her home

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All of the following quotes are clues or examples of the Johnson's’ poor status except which?

• “Everything delighted [Dee]. Even the fact that we still used the benches her daddy made for the table when we couldn’t afford to buy chairs.”
• “[T]hat was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school.”
• “[T]hen the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed.” 
• “There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside.”

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