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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What states do the gospel circuit run from?
2. What does Bone steal from the Woolworth's?
3. Who tells Mama, "Now you look like a Boatwright"?
4. Who was the nurse at the hospital?
5. According to Mama in Chapter 7, how did she and Aunt Raylene earn money when they were girls?
Short Essay Questions
1. After Glen beats Bone with a belt for the first time, Mama asks Bone what she did. Why doesn't Bone tell her?
2. Glen is very happy about Mama's pregnancy. What does it mean for him?
3. In Chapter 2, Mama tells Bone not to pay any attention to what Granny says because some women love their sons more than their daughters. What do you think the effect of this type of thinking is on female children?
4. Glen chooses different types of houses than the Boatwright aunts. Which type of house does Bone seem to prefer and why?
5. Describe Shannon Pearl.
6. 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?
7. The first time Mama leaves Glen is for two weeks. What makes her decide to return?
8. Why does Bone begin looking at herself in mirrors?
9. What is the implied meaning of the word "established" when uttered by the court clerk?
10. Why does Bone try to scare Reese against hitchhiking while at the same time doing it herself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the five Boatwright sisters: Anney, Raylene, Alma, Carr, and Ruth. Who is the most different and why? Describe the relationship between the five women as children and as adults.
Essay Topic 2
Hunger is another strong feeling evident in "Bastard Out of Carolina." Compare and contrast Bone's physical hunger when the family has no food with the angry, rage-filled hunger she feels at the Woolworth's and at the Waddell's.
Essay Topic 3
Mama makes many decisions in the book--marrying Glen, leaving him, going back to him, and staying with him in the end. Describe the thoughts she probably had and what her choices are. Choose one of her major decisions and write a supportive argument for what she decides.
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