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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. While Bone is working for her aunt, where does Reese spend her afternoons?
(a) Bible classes as Jesus Love Academy.
(b) Running around on her own.
(c) Playing with her cousins.
(d) At home with Glen.

3. What happens to Bone after the funeral?
(a) She runs off.
(b) She gets drunk.
(c) She cries.
(d) Glen molests her.

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

5. What Boatwright relative busts in on Bone and the sheriff without permission?
(a) Aunt Alma.
(b) Uncle Nevil.
(c) Uncle Beau.
(d) Aunt Raylene.

6. Uncle Earle brings something to Aunt Raylene's house to help make Bone feel better. What is it?
(a) Books.
(b) A stuffed animal.
(c) Television.
(d) Record player and records.

7. What is Granny busy with when Mama was growing up?
(a) Having affairs.
(b) Cleaning house.
(c) Working at a farm.
(d) Chasing after the boys or Alma.

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

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

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

11. What kinds of fish did the uncles catch at Aunt Raylene's place near the river?
(a) Trout and catfish.
(b) Carp and catfish.
(c) Bass and trout.
(d) Bass and carp.

12. Who does Bone think is the better looking of her male cousins?
(a) Grey.
(b) Garvey.
(c) Wade.
(d) Little Earle.

13. According to her mother, who loves babies and is a friend to the less fortunate?
(a) Bone.
(b) Shannon Pearl.
(c) Reese.
(d) Temple.

14. Bone wants Glen to be a father like the father in what book?
(a) Little House on the Prairie.
(b) Robinson Crusoe.
(c) A Wrinkle in Time.
(d) Treasure Island.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What leads to Alma's breakdown?

2. Who is pregnant in Chapter 16?

3. When Bone leaves home against her mother's instructions in Chapter 18, where does she go?

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

5. What does Bone try to defend herself with against Glen in Chapter 20?

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