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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aunt Raylene, who has a "spirit of meanness" at birth?
(a) Glen.
(b) Uncle Earle.
(c) Bone.
(d) Grey.

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

3. When Glen starts having trouble with his father and at work, where does Mama send the girls in the afternoons?
(a) Granny's.
(b) Aunt Raylene's.
(c) Aunt Alma's.
(d) Aunt Ruth's.

4. What is Granny busy with when Mama was growing up?
(a) Working at a farm.
(b) Cleaning house.
(c) Having affairs.
(d) Chasing after the boys or Alma.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drives around at night, looking for Glen in order to kill him?

2. Where does Bone and Reese sleep the night that her uncles beat Glen?

3. How old is Bone when she is raped?

4. What is the only story the children act out that they use Bone's cap for?

5. Bone wants Glen to be a father like the father in what book?

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