vocabulary words
characters
themes
random
context
100
This is either sneaky or secretive
What is furtive?
100
The narrator of this story
Who is mama?
100
Not wanting to be named after her oppressors.
What is the reason Dee change her name?
100
The name of the short story
What is Everyday Use?
100
The result of a horrific incident involving Maggie.
What are burns and scars on her arms?
200
To restore to calm, to settle again
What is recompose?
200
The shy and homely sister.
Who is Maggie?
200
Who was Dee really named after?
What is her grandmother
200
The author of the story
Who is Alice Walker?
200
The highest grade mama went to school for.
What is second-grade education?
300
A Set of rules, beliefs, or values held by a group.
What is doctrine?
300
The confident and self-assured sister
Who is Dee?
300
The person Dee was named after?
Who was her grandmother?
300
The time frame the story was set in.
What is 1960's?
300
Dee displaying the quilts.
What is on display and hanging up
400
Something passed down through the generations, such as tradition, values, property.
What is heritage?
400
Dee's new name.
Who is Wangero?
400
Small pieces of her families past sewn together.
What are the quilts?
400
Rights that grew out of the "black pride" movement
What are civil rights?
400
A wedding gift from mama.
What is a quilt for Maggie and John Thomas?
500
Curdled milk
What is clabber?
500
Dee's male companion.
What is Asalamalakim or Hakim-a-barber?
500
Items whittled from wood and kept in the family for generations.
What are the churn and dasher?
500
How African Americans celebrated their cultural identity and African heritage.
What is adopting African clothing, hairstyles, names, languages?
500
The main theme of the story, where Dee and Mama differ in their beliefs.
What is heritage?
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