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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. What is one of the pretend meals that Bone and Reese make up?
(a) Sugar-glazed turtle meat with poson greens.
(b) Mashed bug meat with pickles.
(c) Peanut butter and steamed daffodils.
(d) Fried rutabagas and jellos.

2. What does Bone dream of buying her mother after she became a famous singer?
(a) A yellow Cadillac and a house on Henderson road.
(b) Her own diner.
(c) The fanciest house in Greenville.
(d) Beautiful clothes.

3. Who comes to the diner almost everyday for lunch?
(a) Glen.
(b) Travis.
(c) Uncle Earle.
(d) The preacher.

4. What is Bone doing before Glen takes her into the bathroom and whips her with a belt?
(a) Singing.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Running through the house.
(d) Talking back.

5. What does Bone steal from the Woolworth's?
(a) Tootsie Rolls.
(b) Hair barette.
(c) Bubble gum.
(d) Soda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Butch living in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 5, what does Glen promise Mama?

3. Does Bone ever see her real father?

4. What clothing does Bone beg from her aunts?

5. From whose point of view is "Bastard Out of Carolina" told?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bone know about her biological father?

2. Describe Mama's and Aunt Ruth's relationship.

3. Why does it take Mama two years of dating Glen before she married him?

4. The first time Mama leaves Glen is for two weeks. What makes her decide to return?

5. Why does Mama leave Glen only after her siblings find out that he has beaten Bone?

6. Describe the differences between Mama and her girls and the children of Glen's brothers.

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

8. Bone and her family begin moving frequently in Chapter 5, never staying in one place very long. Why is this?

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

10. In Chapter 8, Bone begins suffering many injuries at Glen's hands. Does it seem realistic that her mother wouldn't realize what is going on?

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