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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Glen grinning and boasting about in Chapter 4?
(a) Getting married.
(b) His new job.
(c) His new house.
(d) Mama is pregnant.

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

3. Mama is silent and Reese is angry in Chapter 18. Who does Bone blame for this?
(a) Herself.
(b) Aunt Raylene.
(c) Glen.
(d) Uncle Earle.

4. Whose photographic image is described "as flat and empty as a sheet of tin in the sun"?
(a) Bone.
(b) Mama.
(c) Glen.
(d) Granny.

5. What is the one thing that saves Glen from the Boatwrights' absolute contempt?
(a) His hands.
(b) His love for Anney.
(c) His temper.
(d) His family.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Granny, who is stuck up and full of themselves?

2. In Chapter 5, what does Glen promise Mama?

3. What is Bone doing before Glen takes her into the bathroom and whips her with a belt?

4. What is one of the pretend meals that Bone and Reese make up?

5. Bone wanted hands as strong as Glen's. How did she exercise them?

(see the answer key)

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