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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. What does Anita say happens in Chapter 17 as she prays while walking up the hill with Stirling and the others?

2. What does Anita say most people need in order to raise zombies from the grave?

3. What does Richard ask when Anita tells him she has to go out of town on business in Chapter 2?

4. What does Magnus tell Anita he had thought would happen?

5. What does Anita tell Larry she did when explaining that she isn't always good around fresh dead bodies in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anita tell Dolph when she talks to him on the phone in Chapter 10?

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

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

4. What is Anita worried about after hearing Larry explain who he is more afraid of in chapter nineteen and what does she tell him?

5. What does Dolph tell Anita on the phone in Chapter 5?

6. Describe the conversation that Freemont and Anita have in Chapter 16.

7. In the beginning of Chapter 6 what do Larry and Anita discuss in regards to the rules of being at a crime scene for Larry to follow?

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

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

10. Describe the scene in the helicopter in Chapter 3.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick one of the following to write about.

1) If you had to pick one of the creatures from the book to be which one would you chose and why? Human, necromancer, fey, vampire, lycanthrope, or other.

2) If you had been writing the story what would you have changed about the ending or the ending that particular characters came to? Explain your changes.

3) What age do you feel that Bloody Bones is most appropriate for? Explain citing parts of the book to support your answer.

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) What is important about the crucifix in the story?

2) Do you think that the crosses that Anita and Larry wore were more or less powerful because of their powers?

3) What other symbols are found in the story and what do they represent?

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