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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the pretend meals that Bone and Reese make up?
(a) Fried rutabagas and jellos.
(b) Peanut butter and steamed daffodils.
(c) Mashed bug meat with pickles.
(d) Sugar-glazed turtle meat with poson greens.

2. What happens when Bone is hungry?
(a) She distracts herself with a book.
(b) She cries.
(c) Her hands won't stay still.
(d) She sings.

3. What is "the backbone of the Pearl family income"?
(a) A percentage from the revivals.
(b) An inheritance.
(c) Welfare checks.
(d) Mrs. Pearl's specialty sewing.

4. How do Bone and her sister get to Aunt Alma's in Chapter 6?
(a) Ride with Uncle Earle.
(b) Mama drops them off.
(c) Hitch-hike.
(d) Walk.

5. What states do the gospel circuit run from?
(a) West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia.
(b) North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama.
(c) South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee.
(d) Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are Shannon Pearl's eyes?

2. In Chapter 17, what happens when Bone snaps at Glen that she didn't hear him?

3. Where does Aunt Carr live?

4. Where is Glen when Mama cooks eggs for Bone and Reese?

5. What does Shannon Pearl's father do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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