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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When she is little, who "would have given just about anything to be pretty"?
(a) Aunt Raylene.
(b) Aunt Carr.
(c) Aunt Alma.
(d) Aunt Ruth.

2. Who tells Reese that she can't "scare a chicken off a nest of water moccasins"?
(a) Patsy Ruth.
(b) Little Earle.
(c) Grey.
(d) Bone.

3. 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 goes to the Woolworth's.
(c) She walks to Aunt Raylene's.
(d) She hitches a ride to Aunt Alma's.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. After Bone refuses to return home, she compares Glen's eyes to what?
(a) A winter storm.
(b) Black granite.
(c) Hard blue rocks.
(d) Storm clouds.

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

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

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

14. After Mama and Bone put Aunt Alma to bed, Mama asks Bone what she thinks about all the time. How does Bone answer?
(a) That she's waiting for Mama to go back to Glen.
(b) That she feels like she's going crazy like Aunt Alma.
(c) That Glen has been molesting her.
(d) That she wants to kill Glen.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Aunt Alma's favorite newspaper clip about the family?

3. Who is pregnant in Chapter 16?

4. Everyone who is expected eventually arrives for the funeral except for whom?

5. What leads to Alma's breakdown?

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