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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tears start running down Bone's face soon after she hears what song by Kitty Wells?
(a) "Talk Back Trembling Lips."
(b) "Walking After Midnight."
(c) "Honky Tonk Angels."
(d) "Don't Be Cruel."

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

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

4. 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 Glen has been molesting her.
(c) That she feels like she's going crazy like Aunt Alma.
(d) That she wants to kill Glen.

5. How does Bone spend her first days at Aunt Raylene's house after the assault?
(a) In bed.
(b) Screaming at her aunt.
(c) Sitting quietly on the front porch.
(d) Crying.

6. Who does Deedee say she's seen three times?
(a) Elvis.
(b) Johnny Cash.
(c) Conway Twitty.
(d) The Silhouettes.

7. Why does Aunt Alma say that she must kill her husband?
(a) Because she loves him.
(b) Because he called her a cow.
(c) Because he's been cheating on her.
(d) Because she hates him.

8. Aunt Alma's feet are "resting on a little pile of chopped black slats." What are the black slats?
(a) Pieces of a black cupboard.
(b) Clothing ripped to shreds.
(c) 45 rpm record fragments.
(d) Pieces of tire.

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

10. Bone is giggling at the puppies when a Ford pulled up. Who is in the Ford?
(a) Wade.
(b) Glen.
(c) Mama.
(d) Uncle Earle.

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

12. What does Bone steal from the Woolworth's store in Chapter 15?
(a) Books.
(b) Picture frames.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Tootsie Rolls.

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

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

15. Who says that Alma has "gone crazy as a milk cow"?
(a) Uncle Earle.
(b) Little Earle.
(c) Grace.
(d) Patsy Ruth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who questions Bone about what she sees in Chapter 13?

2. After Bone refuses to return home, she compares Glen's eyes to what?

3. Where is Uncle Earle in Chapter 13?

4. Bone wants Glen to be a father like the father in what book?

5. When does Shannon Pearl reach Bone on the telephone?

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