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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the Waddell's call Bone and Reese?
(a) Trash.
(b) Anney's girls.
(c) Boatwrights.
(d) Glen's girls.
2. What season of the year does Mama marry Glen?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.
3. Why does Deedee agree to come home and help care for her mother?
(a) She lost her job and home.
(b) She just left a bad relationship.
(c) Her mother was dying.
(d) Her father would make payments on her car.
4. In Chapter 7, who does Mama describe as "just bad all the way through"?
(a) Tommy Lee.
(b) Little Earle.
(c) Butch.
(d) Grey.
5. What is Glen grinning and boasting about in Chapter 4?
(a) Getting married.
(b) His new job.
(c) Mama is pregnant.
(d) His new house.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do Bone and her sister get to Aunt Alma's in Chapter 6?
2. Whose boots are bought in the boys' department of the Sears and Roebuck?
3. What does Bone do in Chapter 9 that upsets Aunt Alma?
4. Who is Bone's favorite uncle?
5. What is "the backbone of the Pearl family income"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Bone's favorite cousin and why?
2. How does Bone's relationship with Earle and Grey change after Alma's breakdown?
3. In Chapter 8, Bone begins suffering many injuries at Glen's hands. Does it seem realistic that her mother wouldn't realize what is going on?
4. When Mrs. Parson's comes to visit and bring Lyle's insurance money, Mama struggles between being polite and hoping Mrs. Parson leave before Glen returns home. What do you think Glen would do?
5. Do either the Waddells or the Boatwrights respect Glen?
6. Bone finally sees a smile in Glen's eyes before he molests her, but it vanishes afterwards. Why?
7. In Chapter 6, Mama tells the girls about she and her siblings making up foods they would never have or wouldn't want. Why does she do this?
8. Why does it take Mama two years of dating Glen before she married him?
9. Why does Bone try to scare Reese against hitchhiking while at the same time doing it herself?
10. Describe Shannon Pearl.
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