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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mama cook on the sides of the pan with the eggs?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Biscuits.
(c) Green tomato slices.
(d) Fatback.

2. Who knows the words to every song in the Baptist hymnal?
(a) Mama.
(b) Bone.
(c) Mrs. Pearl.
(d) Shannon Pearl.

3. Who is Aunt Alma's oldest girl?
(a) Deedee.
(b) Patsy Ruth.
(c) Shirley.
(d) Temple.

4. What happens after Deedee refuses to go to the funeral?
(a) She runs to her room crying.
(b) Aunt Raylene slaps her.
(c) She runs away.
(d) Her father yells at her.

5. What does Shannon Pearl's father do for a living?
(a) Works at the mill.
(b) He is a preacher.
(c) Operates a Christian bookstore.
(d) Books singers for revivals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Bone after the funeral?

2. How many people are in the downstairs apartment, according to Grey?

3. What states do the gospel circuit run from?

4. What does Aunt Alma do that earned her Glen's contempt in Chapter 6?

5. What does Mama feed the girls when there is little food in the house?

(see the answer key)

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