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Bastard Out of Carolina Quiz 1

1 What is Bone’s actual name?
Ruth Anne

Maybelle Ray

Anney

Darlene
2 Why does Annie want to get Bone a new birth certificate?
Her original was burned in a fire

Her name on the original is mispelled

Her original is stamped "illegitimate"

Her original was lost
3 What happens to Reese’s father?
He dies in a car accident

He leaves Annie

He joins the military

He disappears
4 What building burns down at the end of Chapter 1?
The police station

Bone's house

Granny's house

The courthouse
5 How does Anney meet Glen Waddell?
Uncle Earle introduces them

He follows her home after seeing her

Granny introduces them

She sees him working and introduces herself
6 Whom does Granny tease for being ugly?
Reese

Little Earle

Uncle Earle

Bone
7 Whom does Granny claim Bone looks like?
Granny

Uncle Earle

Anney

Granny's grandfather
8 Why doesn’t Bone want her hair cut?
Because it makes her look pretty

Because she'll look like a boy

She likes it when her mother brushes her hair

Because it makes her look like her mother
9 Which of the Boatwright uncles has a way with women?
Uncle Earle

Uncle Travis

Uncle Beau

Uncle Nevil
10 Who is Little Earle?
Bone's younger brother

Glen's son

Bone's younger cousin

Anney's brother
11 How long does Anney date Glen before they marry?
Two years

Three months

Two months

Three years
12 Where does Glen propose to Anney?
Outside the RC Cola plant

In her aparment

In Granny's house

At the diner
13 Where does Glen work at the beginning of the novel?
The RC Cola plant

Textile factory

Corner store

The diner
14 Who is the first person to tell Anney that there is something wrong with Glen?
Bone

Aunt Raylene

Aunt Alma

Granny
15 Why does the Boatwright family gather on the porch at the end of Chapter 3?
To take a picture

To eat dinner

To celebrate Anney and Glen's engagement

To sleep outside
16 What is a love knot (according to the Eustis aunts)?
A knotted length of rope

A delicate piece of crochet work

A drink made according to a secret Boatwright recipe

A twisted hair knot covered in rabbit's blood
17 When does Glen first molest Bone?
A year after he begins dating her mother

After the death of his son

After he marries Bone's mother

While her mother gives birth
18 Who comes to help Anney after the stillbirth?
Glen's sister

No one

Her sisters

Glen's mother
19 What prompts Bone's family's first move?
Glen becomes possessive and insists

Anney doesn't feel safe in their current neighborhood

Anney wants to escape her family

Glen inherits his family's home
20 Why are the Boatwrights suspicious of Glen?
He comes from a poor family

He has been married several times

He is possessive and desperate

He is a drunkard
21 Who does Glen want Bone and Reese to stay away from?
The Boatwright uncles

Shannon Pearl

Granny

His father
22 Who is Bone's favorite cousin?
Garvey

Butch

Grey

Little Earle
23 Who Mrs. Parsons?
Glen's mother

Bone's paternal grandmother

Reese's paternal grandmother

Anney's neighbor
24 What does Reese keep in her underwear drawer?
A picture of her father

Her diary

A picture of her mother

A small wad of money
25 What kind of shoes does Bone want?
Patent-leather Mary Janes

Heels like her mother's

Expensive sneakers

Leather hiking boots

Bone tells the manager that she stole candy.

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Answered by Aslan on 10/27/2022 4:39 AM

How is Daddy Glen portrayed in the novel, and what evidence can we use to explain his abuse of Bone?

Anney's tortured and unpredictable second husband, Glen Waddell, is the black sheep of his middle-class family. Glen is a possessive and controlling man. He attempts to isolate Anney and her daughters from the Boatwrights. He has trouble keeping a...

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Do the Boatwrights move beyond the cycle of abuse?

The Boatwright legacy is a force of nature, and the family members can never truly escape the toxic patterns. Anney, initially dedicated to rising above the family's reputation, becomes forever entangled in it when she becomes a single parent at...

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