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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Anita say tat vampires tend to stay near cities?

2. Why does Anita ask Jeff to show her the other doors in the house?

3. What does Anita say when Bayard asks if it would have been easier if she had been brought in before the graves had been disturbed?

4. What does Larry say he found outside under Ellie's window?

5. How many people does Burt tell Anita they want to have raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Quinlan's and Anita discuss in regards to Ellie in Chapter 12?

2. In Chapter 18 what does Jean-Claude explain to Anita that he needs Jason and her to do in front of the Master of the City?

3. What does Anita say to Jean-Claude when she calls him on the phone in Chapter 16?

4. What do Jason and Larry explain in Chapter 19 as to who they are more scared of and why?

5. In Chapter 13 what does Jeff tell Anita and Larry about Andy when they talk to Jeff in his room?

6. What happens while Anita is reading the dead in Chapter 17?

7. What does Magnus explain when Dorcas brigns over the menues to Anita and Larry?

8. Describe Bloody Bones when Anita and Larry first walk in in Chapter 9.

9. What does Anita tell everyone before they go out hunting vampires in Chapter 15?

10. What does Anita find when they arrive back at the Quinlan home in Chapter 15?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What was the significance of the title of the book, BLOODY BONES?

2) What other names could the book have had that would have been as effective?

3) What about the title draws your attention or doesn't appeal to you?

4) How important is the title of a book?

Essay Topic 2

1) Explain the role that family plays in a person's life.

2) How is the family role looked at in the story?

3) Which family role do you feel was most powerful? The Bouvier family, Anita and her memories of her mother and father, the Quinlans, Sheriff St. John and his wife, or the vampire clan that works as a type of family? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

1) Could this story have taken place in a different time in history? Why or why not?

2) What about the story made the setting more or less realistic to the reader?

3) Which of the settings in the story was the most important to the story and why?

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