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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Glen when Mama cooks eggs for Bone and Reese?
(a) In the kitchen with the family.
(b) In front of the television in the living room.
(c) He has left the house in anger.
(d) On the front porch smoking.

2. What does Aunt Alma do that earned her Glen's contempt in Chapter 6?
(a) Abandons her children.
(b) Moves out on her husband.
(c) Gets a job.
(d) Has an affair.

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

4. Why does Mama go to the courthouse on Bone's birthday each year?
(a) She liked the court clerk.
(b) To get a copy of a marriage certificate.
(c) She kept losing Bone's birth certificate.
(d) To get a birth certificate without "illegitimate" stamped on it.

5. Who does Bone love best of all her cousins?
(a) Patsy Ruth.
(b) Garvey.
(c) Grey.
(d) Butch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes photos of everyone with a camera in Chapter 3?

2. Who are Marvella and Maybelle?

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

4. One of Alma's children is named Annie, but her nickname is what?

5. What does Mama pack for the picnic?

(see the answer key)

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