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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who runs off and worked for the carnival when they are young?
(a) Uncle Beau.
(b) Aunt Alma.
(c) Uncle Nevil.
(d) Aunt Raylene.

2. What does Aunt Raylene bring when she visits Mama and the girls after they move away from Glen?
(a) Home grown vegetables.
(b) A bottle of whisky.
(c) A carton of cigarattes.
(d) Home-canned blackberries.

3. Where is Aunt Alma when Glen shows up to talk to Boone?
(a) In the garden.
(b) Visiting Aunt Raylene.
(c) In the house.
(d) At the doctor.

4. In Chapter 17, what happens when Bone snaps at Glen that she didn't hear him?
(a) He throws her against the wall.
(b) He beats her with a belt.
(c) He slaps her.
(d) He yells at her.

5. When Sheriff Cole asks Bone who did this to her, what does she say?
(a) Glen.
(b) She doesn't remember.
(c) A stranger.
(d) That she wants to go home and wants her mama.

6. What game does Bone make up after a fight with the boy cousins?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Mean sisters.
(c) Cherokees.
(d) Francis Marion.

7. Bone thinks of the sheriff as what?
(a) An avenging angel.
(b) Daddy Glen in uniform.
(c) A man who looks at her as trash.
(d) Someone who doesn't believe her.

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

9. Why does Bone apologize to Mama at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) Mama discovers Bone has been sexually abused.
(b) For yelling at Glen.
(c) For breaking into the Woolworth's.
(d) The family discovers that Glen beats her.

10. Who did Bone want to see at the hospital that doesn't come?
(a) Uncle Earle.
(b) Mama.
(c) Grey.
(d) Reese.

11. What does Uncle Earle have hidden that he shows Bone?
(a) $500.
(b) A bottle of liquor.
(c) A gun.
(d) A knife blade.

12. When Glen starts having trouble with his father and at work, where does Mama send the girls in the afternoons?
(a) Aunt Raylene's.
(b) Granny's.
(c) Aunt Alma's.
(d) Aunt Ruth's.

13. Who is pregnant in Chapter 16?
(a) Temple.
(b) Deedee.
(c) Aunt Raylene.
(d) Aunt Alma.

14. How old is Bone when she is raped?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

15. What is Aunt Alma's favorite newspaper clip about the family?
(a) A picture of two of her children in a school play.
(b) Her wedding announcement.
(c) Uncle Earle's convertible smashed in the barbershop.
(d) Anything to do with the Boatright uncles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only story the children act out that they use Bone's cap for?

2. The special item that Bone fishes out of the river is carried home in a sack along with what?

3. Who drives around at night, looking for Glen in order to kill him?

4. Who stays with Bone in the hospital?

5. Where does Mama move herself and the girls after her family discovers that Bone has been abused by Glen?

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