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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What leads to Alma's breakdown?
(a) Boone's beatings.
(b) The bank foreclosing on the house.
(c) Wanting a baby, but her husband refusing.
(d) The death of her sister, Ruth.

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

3. In Chapter 17, what happens when Bone snaps at Glen that she didn't hear him?
(a) He yells at her.
(b) He slaps her.
(c) He throws her against the wall.
(d) He beats her with a belt.

4. What happens after Deedee refuses to go to the funeral?
(a) She runs away.
(b) Her father yells at her.
(c) She runs to her room crying.
(d) Aunt Raylene slaps her.

5. After Bone refuses to return home, she compares Glen's eyes to what?
(a) A winter storm.
(b) Storm clouds.
(c) Hard blue rocks.
(d) Black granite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only story the children act out that they use Bone's cap for?

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

3. What does Uncle Earle have hidden that he shows Bone?

4. Why does Bone apologize to Mama at the end of Chapter 17?

5. Mama is silent and Reese is angry in Chapter 18. Who does Bone blame for this?

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