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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) 45 rpm record fragments.
(c) Clothing ripped to shreds.
(d) Pieces of tire.

5. What does Bone witness Glen doing as he talks to his father?
(a) Stutter.
(b) Wring his hands.
(c) Shuffle his feet.
(d) Yell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. When Mama arrives after the rape, where does Bone want Mama to take her?
(a) Home.
(b) Aunt Ruth's house for a shotgun.
(c) Aunt Raylene's house.
(d) The hospital.

14. What treasure do Bone and her cousins find in the river in Chapter 12?
(a) Money.
(b) A motorcycle headlight.
(c) A car tire.
(d) A set of hooks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose relationship turns competitive in Chapter 12?

2. What book does Bone mention in Chapter 16 that is from Aunt Raylene?

3. According to Aunt Raylene, who has a "spirit of meanness" at birth?

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

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

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