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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Bone take with her to break into Woolworth's?
(a) Grey.
(b) Uncle Earle.
(c) Garvey.
(d) Reese.

2. What is the only story the children act out that they use Bone's cap for?
(a) The Daltons.
(b) Johnny Yuma.
(c) Frankenstein.
(d) Swamp Fox.

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

4. When Mama and Aunt Alma are talking, who do they say that Bone looks like?
(a) Alma.
(b) Mama.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Great-Aunt Malvena.

5. What makes Aunt Ruth feel like she was worth something?
(a) Being married.
(b) Being pregnant.
(c) Having money.
(d) Being thin.

6. What book does Bone mention in Chapter 16 that is from Aunt Raylene?
(a) Huck Finn.
(b) The Wizard of Oz.
(c) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
(d) Little Women.

7. Who manages the Woolworth's store?
(a) Tyler Highgarden.
(b) James Worth.
(c) Ralph Greenville.
(d) Myer Johnson.

8. According to Aunt Raylene, who has a "spirit of meanness" at birth?
(a) Grey.
(b) Bone.
(c) Uncle Earle.
(d) Glen.

9. What habit do some of the Boatwright women show when they're nervous?
(a) Tap their foot.
(b) Bite their nails.
(c) Bite the lower lip.
(d) Pick at their cuticles.

10. Where does Bone and Reese sleep the night that her uncles beat Glen?
(a) In their house while Glen was at the hospital.
(b) In a motel.
(c) In the car.
(d) With an aunt.

11. Who drives around at night, looking for Glen in order to kill him?
(a) Uncle Earle.
(b) Uncle Beau.
(c) Grey.
(d) Uncle Nevil.

12. Where is Uncle Earle in Chapter 13?
(a) County farm.
(b) Stays with Aunt Raylene.
(c) Lives with his ex-wife briefly.
(d) Travels as a trucker.

13. Who questions Bone about what she sees in Chapter 13?
(a) Sheriff Cole.
(b) Aunt Alma.
(c) Glen.
(d) Mrs. Pearl.

14. Who stays with Bone in the hospital?
(a) Aunt Alma.
(b) Temple.
(c) Patsy Ruth.
(d) Aunt Raylene.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Bone want to see at the hospital that doesn't come?

2. How does Bone spend her first days at Aunt Raylene's house after the assault?

3. After Mama and Bone put Aunt Alma to bed, Mama asks Bone what she thinks about all the time. How does Bone answer?

4. Mama is silent and Reese is angry in Chapter 18. Who does Bone blame for this?

5. Who tells Reese that she can't "scare a chicken off a nest of water moccasins"?

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