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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What habit do some of the Boatwright women show when they're nervous?
(a) Pick at their cuticles.
(b) Bite their nails.
(c) Bite the lower lip.
(d) Tap their foot.

2. Where does Mama move herself and the girls after her family discovers that Bone has been abused by Glen?
(a) To Alma's house.
(b) To Raylene's house.
(c) To an apartment by the railroad tracks.
(d) To an apartment over the Fish Market.

3. The special item that Bone fishes out of the river is carried home in a sack along with what?
(a) Canned food.
(b) Zucchini and cucumbers.
(c) Hand-me-downs.
(d) Dirty clothes.

4. When Mama and Aunt Alma are talking, who do they say that Bone looks like?
(a) Mama.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Great-Aunt Malvena.
(d) Alma.

5. Bone wants Glen to be a father like the father in what book?
(a) Robinson Crusoe.
(b) Little House on the Prairie.
(c) A Wrinkle in Time.
(d) Treasure Island.

6. What kinds of fish did the uncles catch at Aunt Raylene's place near the river?
(a) Trout and catfish.
(b) Bass and carp.
(c) Carp and catfish.
(d) Bass and trout.

7. When she is little, who "would have given just about anything to be pretty"?
(a) Aunt Carr.
(b) Aunt Ruth.
(c) Aunt Alma.
(d) Aunt Raylene.

8. What does Uncle Earle have hidden that he shows Bone?
(a) A gun.
(b) A knife blade.
(c) A bottle of liquor.
(d) $500.

9. When Sheriff Cole asks Bone who did this to her, what does she say?
(a) That she wants to go home and wants her mama.
(b) She doesn't remember.
(c) A stranger.
(d) Glen.

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

11. What treasure do Bone and her cousins find in the river in Chapter 12?
(a) A car tire.
(b) A set of hooks.
(c) Money.
(d) A motorcycle headlight.

12. When Bone leaves home against her mother's instructions in Chapter 18, where does she go?
(a) She walks to Aunt Raylene's.
(b) She goes to the Woolworth's.
(c) She walks to her mother's job.
(d) She hitches a ride to Aunt Alma's.

13. Who says that Alma has "gone crazy as a milk cow"?
(a) Patsy Ruth.
(b) Grace.
(c) Uncle Earle.
(d) Little Earle.

14. How does Bone spend her first days at Aunt Raylene's house after the assault?
(a) Sitting quietly on the front porch.
(b) Crying.
(c) Screaming at her aunt.
(d) In bed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs off and worked for the carnival when they are young?

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

3. According to her mother, who loves babies and is a friend to the less fortunate?

4. What leads to Alma's breakdown?

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

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