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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose relationship turns competitive in Chapter 12?
(a) Shannon Pearl and Mrs. Pearl.
(b) Bone and Glen.
(c) Bone and Shannon Pearl.
(d) Bone and Reese.

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

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

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

6. Where does Mama move herself and the girls after her family discovers that Bone has been abused by Glen?
(a) To Alma's house.
(b) To Raylene's house.
(c) To an apartment by the railroad tracks.
(d) To an apartment over the Fish Market.

7. What does Bone try to defend herself with against Glen in Chapter 20?
(a) A rock.
(b) A butter knife.
(c) A jar of peanut butter.
(d) Aunt Alma's razor.

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

9. When Bone leaves home against her mother's instructions in Chapter 18, where does she go?
(a) She walks to her mother's job.
(b) She hitches a ride to Aunt Alma's.
(c) She goes to the Woolworth's.
(d) She walks to Aunt Raylene's.

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

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

12. Everyone who is expected eventually arrives for the funeral except for whom?
(a) Dwight.
(b) D.W.
(c) Travis.
(d) Tommy Lee.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bone and Reese sleep the night that her uncles beat Glen?

2. Why does Aunt Alma say that she must kill her husband?

3. Where is Aunt Alma when Glen shows up to talk to Boone?

4. Who says that Alma has "gone crazy as a milk cow"?

5. Bone is giggling at the puppies when a Ford pulled up. Who is in the Ford?

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