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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are in the downstairs apartment, according to Grey?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

2. How often do Bone's family visit Glen's family?
(a) A couple of times a month.
(b) Weekly.
(c) Once a year.
(d) About every other month.

3. According to Mama in Chapter 7, how did she and Aunt Raylene earn money when they were girls?
(a) Washing dishes.
(b) Baking pies.
(c) Selling junk by the side of the road.
(d) Picking strawberries.

4. Who does Bone tell about her dream to be a gospel singer?
(a) Mama.
(b) Alma.
(c) Granny.
(d) Ruth.

5. What does Glen hope to receive from his brother, James?
(a) A job.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Money.
(d) A house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose photographic image is described "as flat and empty as a sheet of tin in the sun"?

2. What does Mama pack for the picnic?

3. What does Bone feel when she passes the Woolworth's windows?

4. What does Aunt Alma do that earned her Glen's contempt in Chapter 6?

5. What does Boone spend her money earned from washing dishes on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bone want to be a singer?

2. What are the two things that people talk about when they talk about Glen? How are the two things alike?

3. Why is Bone drawn to Shannon Pearl?

4. In Chapter 6, Mama tells the girls about she and her siblings making up foods they would never have or wouldn't want. Why does she do this?

5. Explain the significance of Aunt Alma's scrapbook for Bone.

6. Why does Bone begin looking at herself in mirrors?

7. Bone says she doesn't want to go to Shannon's family barbecue, but she ends up going. Why do you think she goes?

8. After Glen beats Bone with a belt for the first time, Mama asks Bone what she did. Why doesn't Bone tell her?

9. Why is Bone climbing over the fence into the Pearl's backyard?

10. How does Bone's obsession with religion begin?

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