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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Earle have hidden that he shows Bone?
(a) A bottle of liquor.
(b) $500.
(c) A knife blade.
(d) A gun.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. After Mama gets Bone to the car, what does she do?
(a) Slaps Glen.
(b) Holds Glen's head to her belly.
(c) Tries to run Glen over with the car.
(d) Drives to the hospital.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. 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 carp.
(d) Bass and trout.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shannon Pearl wearing at the barbecue?

2. Aunt Raylene tells Bone that she's going to be tall. In Chapter 14, Bone doesn't want to be tall, she wants to be what?

3. Whose relationship turns competitive in Chapter 12?

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

5. Who does Bone take with her to break into Woolworth's?

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