Bastard Out of Carolina Quizzes

Bastard Out of Carolina Quiz 1

1 What is Bone’s actual name?
Anney

Darlene

Maybelle Ray

Ruth Anne
2 Why does Annie want to get Bone a new birth certificate?
Her name on the original is mispelled

Her original was lost

Her original is stamped "illegitimate"

Her original was burned in a fire
3 What happens to Reese’s father?
He leaves Annie

He joins the military

He disappears

He dies in a car accident
4 What building burns down at the end of Chapter 1?
The police station

Granny's house

The courthouse

Bone's house
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?
Little Earle

Bone

Uncle Earle

Reese
7 Whom does Granny claim Bone looks like?
Uncle Earle

Granny

Anney

Granny's grandfather
8 Why doesn’t Bone want her hair cut?
Because she'll look like a boy

She likes it when her mother brushes her hair

Because it makes her look pretty

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

Uncle Travis

Uncle Earle

Uncle Beau
10 Who is Little Earle?
Bone's younger cousin

Anney's brother

Glen's son

Bone's younger brother
11 How long does Anney date Glen before they marry?
Three years

Three months

Two years

Two months
12 Where does Glen propose to Anney?
Outside the RC Cola plant

At the diner

In Granny's house

In her aparment
13 Where does Glen work at the beginning of the novel?
Corner store

The RC Cola plant

The diner

Textile factory
14 Who is the first person to tell Anney that there is something wrong with Glen?
Aunt Raylene

Aunt Alma

Granny

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

To celebrate Anney and Glen's engagement

To sleep outside

To eat dinner
16 What is a love knot (according to the Eustis aunts)?
A drink made according to a secret Boatwright recipe

A delicate piece of crochet work

A knotted length of rope

A twisted hair knot covered in rabbit's blood
17 When does Glen first molest Bone?
After the death of his son

After he marries Bone's mother

While her mother gives birth

A year after he begins dating her mother
18 Who comes to help Anney after the stillbirth?
Glen's sister

Glen's mother

No one

Her sisters
19 What prompts Bone's family's first move?
Anney doesn't feel safe in their current neighborhood

Glen inherits his family's home

Anney wants to escape her family

Glen becomes possessive and insists
20 Why are the Boatwrights suspicious of Glen?
He has been married several times

He comes from a poor family

He is a drunkard

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

Granny

Shannon Pearl

His father
22 Who is Bone's favorite cousin?
Little Earle

Grey

Garvey

Butch
23 Who Mrs. Parsons?
Glen's mother

Anney's neighbor

Reese's paternal grandmother

Bone's paternal grandmother
24 What does Reese keep in her underwear drawer?
A small wad of money

A picture of her father

A picture of her mother

Her diary
25 What kind of shoes does Bone want?
Heels like her mother's

Expensive sneakers

Leather hiking boots

Patent-leather Mary Janes

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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