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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 was the first thing Mama did to Glen after he first hit Bone with a belt?
(a) Wiped away Bone's tears.
(b) Hugged Glen.
(c) Slapped Glen.
(d) Blamed Bone for the problem.

2. What is the setting in this book?
(a) Greensboro, North Carolina.
(b) Charlotte, North Carolina.
(c) Beaufort, South Carolina.
(d) Greenville, South Carolina.

3. How long does Mama date Glen?
(a) Three months.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two years.

4. Who are Marvella and Maybelle?
(a) The Eustis aunts.
(b) Mama's friends at the diner.
(c) Glen's sisters.
(d) Neighbors.

5. What type of cigarette does Glen smoke in Chapter 4?
(a) Marlboros.
(b) None; Glen didn't smoke.
(c) He rolled his own cigarettes.
(d) Pall Malls.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what kind of car does Mama drive?

2. Who gives Bone a half-dollar and Reese a quarter?

3. Who comes to the diner almost everyday for lunch?

4. Bone worships her uncles. Who are they?

5. Bone and Reese make fun of what in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. In trying to help Bone understand why her mother hasn't visited her, Aunt Raylene reveals something about herself that Bone didn't know. What is it?

2. 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?

3. What does the love knot that the great-aunts make for Mama and Glen symbolize?

4. In Chapter 2, Mama tells Bone not to pay any attention to what Granny says because some women love their sons more than their daughters. What do you think the effect of this type of thinking is on female children?

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

6. Why does Bone try to scare Reese against hitchhiking while at the same time doing it herself?

7. What is the implied meaning of the word "established" when uttered by the court clerk?

8. Why is Bone drawn to Shannon Pearl?

9. Mama's family doesn't like Glen and don't want him to marry Mama. What are their reasons, and do you agree?

10. How is Aunt Raylene different from her sisters?

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