The Bean Trees - JACOB BUSA | Laabri | Nneɛma a ɛma wotumi yɛ ade

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______________ acted as Turtle's parents in signing away legal rights to her.

Mattie and Rev. Jim

Estevan and Esperanza

Edna and Virgie

Lou Ann and Angel

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When Missy left Kentucky she changed her name to ______________.

Taylor

Margaret

Marilyn

Turtle

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Estevan and Esperanza's daughter, Ismene ________________________.

suffered from severe asthma

lived with them above Mattie's garage

was taken in a raid on their neighborhood

died shortly after her second birthday

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Mr. Hughes Walters got Missy a job _____________________________.

at a tire shop

at Wal-mart

at the Dairy Queen

at Pittman County Hospital

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After Turtle was grabbed by the stranger in the park, she ____________________________.

began talking for the first time

wanted to find their real mother

refused to eat

regressed into the catatonic state she was in when Taylor first found her

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Why did Taylor name the Indian girl "Turtle"?

the baby was holding a turtle in her hand

the baby was cradled in a giant turtle shell

Turtle was the only word the baby could say

because of the way she gripped onto everything

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While shopping at Lee Sing's market, Taylor discovered that Edna was _______________________.

a thief

blind

had a husband

had no money

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Lou Ann's husband left her and their baby ________________________.

to become a traveling preacher

because his mother didn't think Lou Ann was good enough for him

because Lou Ann had fallen in love with another man

to become a rodeo clown

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What does Mattie do, besides running the tire shop?

runs the exotic dance bar

shelters illegal aliens

runs a Chinese market

grows and sells marijuana

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When Taylor stopped at a coffee shop in Oklahoma ______________________________.

she was kidnapped by two Indian men

an Indian woman put a baby on the front seat of her car

she met a man and fell in love

she decided she like the country so much she would stop there