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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Bone ever see her real father?
(a) Yes; when she was two years old.
(b) No.
(c) Yes; eight days after she was born.
(d) Yes; when she was five years old.

2. Who is Bone's favorite uncle?
(a) Nevil.
(b) Travis.
(c) Earle.
(d) Beau.

3. Who decides that 'illegitimate' should be stamped on Bone's birth certificate?
(a) Granny.
(b) The doctor.
(c) County office.
(d) Hospital clerk.

4. What happens when Bone is hungry?
(a) She sings.
(b) Her hands won't stay still.
(c) She cries.
(d) She distracts herself with a book.

5. How old is Mama when Bone was born?
(a) 18.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.

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

7. What does Mrs. Parsons give Mama?
(a) A letter.
(b) A special keepsake.
(c) Berries for making a pie.
(d) Insurance money from the army.

8. What does Mama feed the girls when there is little food in the house?
(a) Biscuits and gravy.
(b) Cold tomato soup.
(c) Blackberries.
(d) Soda crackers and ketchup.

9. What states do the gospel circuit run from?
(a) West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia.
(b) North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama.
(c) Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina.
(d) South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee.

10. Where is the first place that Glen moves the family to?
(a) Close to his brother.
(b) By the JC Penney mill near the railroad tracks.
(c) Next door to Beau.
(d) In the next county.

11. Who tells Bone that she isn't a racehorse?
(a) Uncle Earle.
(b) Grey.
(c) Uncle Nevil.
(d) Glen.

12. Who can't sleep past sunrise?
(a) Bone.
(b) Glen.
(c) Reese.
(d) Mama.

13. According to Granny, who is stuck up and full of themselves?
(a) Bone's real father's family.
(b) The preacher's family.
(c) The Waddells.
(d) Lyle's family.

14. What color are Shannon Pearl's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Pink.

15. According to Aunt Madeline, kids are what?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) Monsters.
(c) A delight.
(d) Billy goats.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the family move to after Bone turned ten years old?

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

4. What season of the year does Mama marry Glen?

5. Who cleans Bone's house in Chapter 4?

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