Everyday Use

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. Which of the following best describes the mood at the beginning of the story?

A) anticipatory

B) despairing

C) bitter

D) ecstatic

2. Which of the following does Maggie have?

A) a cleft palate

B) burn marks

C) a stutter

D) acne scars

3. What recurring dream involving Dee does Mrs. Johnson describe? (short answer)

4) As a girl, Dee is implied to have felt what for her family?

A) pride

B) sympathy

C) resentment

D) mistrust

5. Mrs. Johnson describes Dee as “lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair” (Paragraph 10). This draws attention to which of the following?

A) Dee’s vanity

B) Dee’s resemblance to the narrator

C) Dee’s resemblance to her father

D Dee's more “Western” appearance

6. Roughly how long ago did the Johnsons’ old house burn? (short answer)

7.