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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. From whose point of view is "Bastard Out of Carolina" told?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Mama.
(c) Reese.
(d) Bone.

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

3. What happens when Bone is hungry?
(a) Her hands won't stay still.
(b) She distracts herself with a book.
(c) She cries.
(d) She sings.

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

5. What causes Glen to sob in Chapter 4?
(a) Mama lost the baby and can't have more.
(b) He is sorry about molesting Bone.
(c) He loses his job.
(d) An argument with his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What states do the gospel circuit run from?

2. What is "the backbone of the Pearl family income"?

3. Who tells Bone that she isn't a racehorse?

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

5. Where is Butch living in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Glen come to Alma's house?

3. Chapter 8 opens with the love knot disintegrating and being swept away. What does this foretell?

4. How does Aunt Raylene take care of Bone in the hospital?

5. Glen chooses different types of houses than the Boatwright aunts. Which type of house does Bone seem to prefer and why?

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

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

8. Why does Ruth like being pregnant?

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

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

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