View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of fish did the uncles catch at Aunt Raylene's place near the river?

2. Who did Bone want to see at the hospital that doesn't come?

3. Bone thinks of the sheriff as what?

4. What does Aunt Raylene bring when she visits Mama and the girls after they move away from Glen?

5. When Mama and Aunt Alma are talking, who do they say that Bone looks like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bone says that "things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies." What are the results when the relatives learn of Bone's physical abuse? Ultimately, is it a good or bad thing? If it had not happened, would Bone have been raped or not? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Both Bone and Shannon Pearl go through periods where they tell horrific tales fulls of violence. Compare and contrast the stories that each girl tells and their reasons for creating these stories.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 274 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample