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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Granny, who is stuck up and full of themselves?
(a) Lyle's family.
(b) Bone's real father's family.
(c) The Waddells.
(d) The preacher's family.

2. According to Mama in Chapter 7, how did she and Aunt Raylene earn money when they were girls?
(a) Picking strawberries.
(b) Selling junk by the side of the road.
(c) Baking pies.
(d) Washing dishes.

3. Where does Aunt Carr live?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Nashville.

4. What is Mama looking for in the box of Alma's chiffarobe?
(a) Mama's marriage license.
(b) Mama's wedding ring.
(c) Bone's birth certificates.
(d) Reese's birth certificate.

5. What is "the backbone of the Pearl family income"?
(a) A percentage from the revivals.
(b) Welfare checks.
(c) Mrs. Pearl's specialty sewing.
(d) An inheritance.

6. What clothing does Bone beg from her aunts?
(a) Mama's dresses.
(b) Earle and Beau's old denim workshirts.
(c) T-shirts from Bone's uncles.
(d) Her cousin's jeans.

7. One of Alma's children is named Annie, but her nickname is what?
(a) Bug.
(b) Buttercup.
(c) Rosebud.
(d) Tadpole.

8. Who gives Bone a half-dollar and Reese a quarter?
(a) Glen.
(b) Bodine Waddell.
(c) Uncle Earle.
(d) Mama.

9. What color are Shannon Pearl's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Pink.

10. How does Mama's first husband die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Someone stabbed him.
(d) Someone shot him.

11. What does Bone steal from the Woolworth's?
(a) Hair barette.
(b) Tootsie Rolls.
(c) Soda.
(d) Bubble gum.

12. What season of the year does Mama marry Glen?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

13. Who owns Sunshine Dairy?
(a) Butch James.
(b) Daryl Boatwright.
(c) Bodine Waddell.
(d) Danny Yarboro.

14. Who is Aunt Alma's oldest girl?
(a) Patsy Ruth.
(b) Temple.
(c) Shirley.
(d) Deedee.

15. Who gets caught stealing a quart of RC Cola from the grocery store?
(a) Reese.
(b) Grey.
(c) Bone.
(d) Garvey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Bone that Glen is "pure crazy where your mama's concerned"?

2. What role does Bone play in the wedding?

3. Who cleans Bone's house in Chapter 4?

4. Who tells Mama, "Now you look like a Boatwright"?

5. What does Mama feed the girls when there is little food in the house?

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