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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. Who is Aunt Alma's oldest girl?
(a) Patsy Ruth.
(b) Deedee.
(c) Temple.
(d) Shirley.

2. When and where does the first incident of Glen molesting Bone occur?
(a) In Bone's bedroom soon after the honeymoon.
(b) In the bathroom when he was punishing Bone.
(c) In the front seat of the car while Mama was in the hospital.
(d) In the back seat of the car after he lost his job.

3. What states do the gospel circuit run from?
(a) Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina.
(b) North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama.
(c) South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee.
(d) West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia.

4. What is "the backbone of the Pearl family income"?
(a) Mrs. Pearl's specialty sewing.
(b) Welfare checks.
(c) An inheritance.
(d) A percentage from the revivals.

5. When Bone is sitting on her aunt's porch, what music does she listen to?
(a) Gospel music.
(b) Loretta Lynn.
(c) Kitty Wells and George Jones.
(d) Johnny Cash and June Carter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the pretend meals that Bone and Reese make up?

2. Whose boots are bought in the boys' department of the Sears and Roebuck?

3. What does Glen hope to receive from his brother, James?

4. What is the one thing that saves Glen from the Boatwrights' absolute contempt?

5. One of Alma's children is named Annie, but her nickname is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Bone sees two different sides of Glen. Describe them.

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

3. As a young child, why does Bone idolize her uncles and want to be like them?

4. Why is Earle Bone's favorite uncle?

5. What do you think of Glen's statement, "You're mine, all of you, mine" after Mama agrees to marry him?

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

7. The beginning of Chapter 20 shows the healing of two people. Who are they?

8. Why does Mama find Bone's birth certificate upsetting?

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

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

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