Everyday Use by Alice Walker pages 948 – 953

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence, incorporating the question into the answer.

1. How was Maggie injured?

2. How did she and her sister react to that experience?

3. What is Dee’s response when the narrator says that she has promised to give the quilts to Maggie?

4. What is revealed about the narrator’s relationships with her daughters early in the story?

5. What is ironic about Dee’s professed interest in her heritage?

6. How do Maggie and Dee differ:

Physically

Intellectually

Emotionally

7. What does each sister know about her African heritage and her American heritage?

8. To what extent does each sister think it is important to incorporate knowledge of her African heritage into her daily life?

9. What does your heritage mean to you? (Modern vs. Tradition)