In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

The quilt that Alice Walker admires depicts what scene?

• The story of the flood

• Moses at the Red Sea

• the story of the Crucifixion

• Adam & Eve in Eden

Who made the quilt that Alice Walker describes in the excerpt from "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"?

• Ma Rainey

• Phillis Wheatley

• Walker's mother

• an unknown woman

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What does Alice Walker believe about her mother's gift for storytelling?

• It had a major influence on Walker's development as a writer.

• It kept her mother from completing her household chores

• it was the only talent her mother ever showed

• it was not fully appreciated by her father

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What is Alice Walker saying when she calls her mother's gardening an art?

• It is a well-loved hobby.

• It is a creative activity.

• It is not a household chore.

• It is an escape from reality.

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Which of these quotations from "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" supports the main idea that Walker's mother was an artist?

• "during the 'working' day, she labored beside - not behind - my father in the fields"

• "dinners must be started, and cotton must be gathered before the big rains"

• "We have constantly looked high when we should have looked high - and low"

• "Whatever she planted grew as if by magic and her fame as a grower of flowers spread"

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What word describes Alice Walker's attitude toward her mother?

• pitying

• admiring

• sad

• angry

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Where does Alice Walker think there might have been another woman just like her mother more than 200 years ago?

• in the North

• in the South

• in Africa

• in Europe

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Details in the story that conveyed the social conditions of African-American women in the early 20th century include

• the young age at which they married

• the number of children they ended up having

• the list of chores to be done each day

• all of the answers are correct

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How much free time did Walker's mother have (lines 14-15)?

• All afternoon

• Just a few hours each day

• Only a half hour

• There was never a moment free

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What secret does Walker hope to learn from studying her mother's life in lines 17-18?

• What fed her creative spirit

• Why she had so many children

• Why she felt she had to work beside her husband in the fields

• How she worked from sunup to sundown

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