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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bone's family moves into a new home, Glen sends them outside with scissors to do what?
(a) Dig up weeds.
(b) Cut each other's hair.
(c) Cut flowers.
(d) Clip the grass.

2. Aunt Alma's feet are "resting on a little pile of chopped black slats." What are the black slats?
(a) Pieces of tire.
(b) Clothing ripped to shreds.
(c) 45 rpm record fragments.
(d) Pieces of a black cupboard.

3. Why does Deedee agree to come home and help care for her mother?
(a) Her mother was dying.
(b) She just left a bad relationship.
(c) Her father would make payments on her car.
(d) She lost her job and home.

4. In Chapter 7, who does Mama describe as "just bad all the way through"?
(a) Little Earle.
(b) Butch.
(c) Tommy Lee.
(d) Grey.

5. Which aunt does Bone spend her summer helping to take care of?
(a) Aunt Alma.
(b) Aunt Ruth.
(c) Aunt Raylene.
(d) Aunt Carr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose boots are bought in the boys' department of the Sears and Roebuck?

2. Who hopes that Anney can give Glen a son?

3. Who are Marvella and Maybelle?

4. What role does Bone play in the wedding?

5. What game does Bone make up after a fight with the boy cousins?

(see the answer key)

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