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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Glen's first job after the move in Chapter 8?
(a) Working for a box company.
(b) Working at the RC Cola plant.
(c) Account salesman for a uniform company.
(d) Driving a route for Dr. Pepper.

2. Where is Mama working when she meets her second husband?
(a) Gas station.
(b) Sears, Roebuck Auto Outlet.
(c) White Horse Cafe.
(d) Textile mill.

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

4. Who is Reese's father?
(a) Earle Boatwright.
(b) Travis Smith.
(c) Lyle Parsons.
(d) Glen Waddell.

5. Where does Mama go with Bone and Reese when they leave the hospital?
(a) Aunt Alma's.
(b) Aunt Raylene's.
(c) Granny's.
(d) Aunt Ruth's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bone do on Wednesday nights in Chapter 10?

2. How often do Bone's family visit Glen's family?

3. In Chapter 5, what does Glen promise Mama?

4. What states do the gospel circuit run from?

5. Who decides that 'illegitimate' should be stamped on Bone's birth certificate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the differences between Mama and her girls and the children of Glen's brothers.

2. Why does Mama leave Glen only after her siblings find out that he has beaten Bone?

3. Why does Bone create games like the "Dalton Girls" and the "Mean Sisters"?

4. When Mrs. Parson's comes to visit and bring Lyle's insurance money, Mama struggles between being polite and hoping Mrs. Parson leave before Glen returns home. What do you think Glen would do?

5. Aunt Ruth asks Bone if they can talk to each other, meaning she wonders if can they tell each other the truth. Do they?

6. Is Bone happy that Mama finally moves them away from Glen?

7. Why does Bone begin looking at herself in mirrors?

8. What does the love knot that the great-aunts make for Mama and Glen symbolize?

9. Why does Mama find Bone's birth certificate upsetting?

10. How does Bone's relationship with Earle and Grey change after Alma's breakdown?

(see the answer keys)

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