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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aunt Alma's feet are "resting on a little pile of chopped black slats." What are the black slats?
(a) Pieces of tire.
(b) 45 rpm record fragments.
(c) Clothing ripped to shreds.
(d) Pieces of a black cupboard.

2. What happens to Bone after the funeral?
(a) She cries.
(b) Glen molests her.
(c) She gets drunk.
(d) She runs off.

3. When does Shannon Pearl reach Bone on the telephone?
(a) Near Easter.
(b) Just before Thanksgiving.
(c) On the hottest day of summer.
(d) The day before school started.

4. Who says that Alma has "gone crazy as a milk cow"?
(a) Patsy Ruth.
(b) Little Earle.
(c) Grace.
(d) Uncle Earle.

5. At the end of the book, where does Bone think Mama will move to?
(a) Maryland or Pennsylvania.
(b) Virginia or Kentucky.
(c) California or Florida.
(d) Alabama or Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Deedee refuses to go to the funeral?

2. What habit do some of the Boatwright women show when they're nervous?

3. What does Bone steal from the Woolworth's store in Chapter 15?

4. According to Aunt Raylene, who has a "spirit of meanness" at birth?

5. Who tells Reese that she can't "scare a chicken off a nest of water moccasins"?

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