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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 attacks Phoney and Fone in the marketplace?

2. What bad decision did Lucius make in his past?

3. What is the hooded figure referring to when it talks about "the sign"?

4. Who do the rat creatures say they are looking for in Book 6, Chapter 1?

5. Who/what attacks Fone and the others as they stand on a ledge in Book 5, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sentences does Tarsil order in Chapter 5?

2. How are Fone and Smiley rescued in Book 5, Chapter 2?

3. What information do the two rat creatures disclose to Fone and Smiley?

4. Who is Taneal and what happens to her in Chapter 6?

5. Describe Tarsil.

6. What do the locusts do in Book 5?

7. What does Lucius share about his past with the sisters, Briar and Rose?

8. How does the group escape from Roque Ja in Chapter 3?

9. What interaction does Ted have with the Bones in the prologue of Book 6?

10. What has happened to Lucius in Book 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What type of role does conflict have in a work of literature? What are two examples of conflict in the Bone books and what is their role/outcome?

Essay Topic 2

How is narrative mode seen in the Bone series and what types of narrative modes are used? Please provide at least two specific examples of narrative mode from the books.

Essay Topic 3

Relationships are important in this story. Choose two relationship and 1) briefly summarize/explain the relationship, and 2) explain the importance of this relationship to the story as a whole. Do you think that the story could have been the same without these two relationships? Why or why not?

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