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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 the one thing that saves Glen from the Boatwrights' absolute contempt?
(a) His temper.
(b) His family.
(c) His love for Anney.
(d) His hands.

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

3. According to Aunt Madeline, kids are what?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Billy goats.
(d) A delight.

4. Who does Bone take roses from?
(a) Aunt Alma.
(b) Aunt Ruth.
(c) Aunt Madeline.
(d) Aunt Carr.

5. Who has many jobs, including one at the RC Cola plant?
(a) Glen.
(b) Mama.
(c) Raylene.
(d) Earle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Bone ever see her real father?

2. Who is Aunt Alma's oldest girl?

3. Who tells Mama that Bone is being beaten?

4. According to Mama in Chapter 7, how did she and Aunt Raylene earn money when they were girls?

5. The instructions for the love knot say that Mama should keep it where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Do either the Waddells or the Boatwrights respect Glen?

3. Do you think that Mama cares if people think she burned down the courthouse?

4. Who is Bone's favorite cousin and why?

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. Why does Bone create games like the "Dalton Girls" and the "Mean Sisters"?

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