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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What leads to Alma's breakdown?
(a) The death of her sister, Ruth.
(b) The bank foreclosing on the house.
(c) Wanting a baby, but her husband refusing.
(d) Boone's beatings.

2. Who does Mama tell Bone that Granny loves best?
(a) Her three boys.
(b) Her grandsons.
(c) Her five girls.
(d) Her granddaughters.

3. What does Boone compare the hair of her sick aunt to?
(a) An old dust mop.
(b) A horse's mane.
(c) A porcupine.
(d) Orange straw.

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

5. What does Shannon Pearl talk about with Bone?
(a) She tells gruesome stories.
(b) God and the Bible.
(c) The meanness of other children.
(d) School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bone's favorite uncle?

2. When she is little, who "would have given just about anything to be pretty"?

3. According to Bone, Glen smells of after-shave, cigarettes, Coca-Cola, and one more thing. What is that one thing?

4. What does Glen hope to receive from his brother, James?

5. Whose photographic image is described "as flat and empty as a sheet of tin in the sun"?

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