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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. Where does Aunt Carr live?
2. What does Bone like to listen to on the radio early in the morning?
3. Why does Mama go to the courthouse on Bone's birthday each year?
4. What does Shannon Pearl's father do for a living?
5. Who tells Bone that she isn't a racehorse?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the differences between Mama and her girls and the children of Glen's brothers.
2. How does Bone's relationship with Earle and Grey change after Alma's breakdown?
3. Do either the Waddells or the Boatwrights respect Glen?
4. 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?
5. Why does Mama find Bone's birth certificate upsetting?
6. Describe Sheriff Cole. Does he really care what happens to Bone?
7. Who is Bone's favorite cousin and why?
8. Glen chooses different types of houses than the Boatwright aunts. Which type of house does Bone seem to prefer and why?
9. Bone sees two different sides of Glen. Describe them.
10. Describe Mama's and Aunt Ruth's relationship.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Bone asks her mother if she looks like her father who she doesn't have contact with. Mama refuses to answer. According to Bone, what she really wants from her mother is her story, "the place where she had made herself different from all her brothers and sisters and shut her mouth on her life." Explain what Bone means by this statement.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Bone and Reese. Why does Glen choose to abuse Bone, but not Reese? With Bone out of the picture at the end of the book, do you think Glen will change? Will he start abusing Reese?
Essay Topic 3
Bone suffers from abuse for years. At first, she doesn't realize she is being sexually abused because there is no penetration. However, her discomfort at Glen holding her close lets the reader understand what's happening. Explain the connection between the abuse and masturbation and violent fantasies.
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