"Everyday Use" By Alice Walker
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Reading Quiz on Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use"
- 1.What does the narrator's yard look like?
- A.
It is a grassy pasture.
- B.
It is made of sand, and cactus grows around the edges.
- C.
It is made of hard clay with sand around the edges.
- D.
It has flower borders, and roses grown by the house.
- 2.What is the narrator's name?
- A.
Wangero
- B.
The story does not say.
- C.
Dee
- D.
Maggie
- 3.Which of the following is not a feature of the narrator's dream?
- A.
She makes witty remarks.
- B.
She has rough hands.
- C.
She weighs a hundred pounds less than she does in real life.
- D.
Her daughter pins an orchid on her dress.
- 4.What happened to the family's old house?
- A.
Flood damage made it uninhabitable.
- B.
The family decided to leave it for a newer, larger place when Dee became a television star.
- C.
The bank foreclosed on it and forced the family to move out.
- D.
It burned down.
- 5.How much education has the narrator had?
- A.
She finished second grade.
- B.
She has a college degree.
- C.
She finished high school.
- D.
She never attended school at all.
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