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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maren love books?
(a) She can pretend to be someone else.
(b) They are good for hitting people.
(c) She wants to be a writer.
(d) They make good pillows.

2. Where do Lee and Maren stay the night after leaving the Walmart?
(a) At Mrs. Harmon's house.
(b) At Barry Cook's house.
(c) At Sully's house.
(d) At Maren's house.

3. What does the boy in the green jersey do to the drunken cowboy?
(a) The boy eats him.
(b) The boy turns him into the Walmart security.
(c) The boy beats him up.
(d) The boy helps him with his groceries.

4. How does Maren say that she keeps ending up alone with boys from her school?
(a) They invite Maren out to their secret hideouts.
(b) They come over to Maren's house.
(c) They invite Maren over to their house after school.
(d) They invite Maren to the library.

5. How did Maren get sick after summer camp?
(a) She got a cold.
(b) She got the flu.
(c) She got a stomach virus.
(d) She got an ear infection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sully say about his eating people to reassure Maren?

2. What is the sculpture that Maren has a picture of in her journal?

3. What does Sully know about Maren before she tells him?

4. What is Maren's plan directly after leaving Andy's car?

5. What does Luke do to Maren in the second kind of dream that Maren has about him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Maren end up that night after leaving her grandparent's house?

2. In Chapter 2, Maren thinks, "Sometimes out the blue I'd have that taste in my mouth" (35). What taste is she talking about?

3. Why do Lee and Maren have to make a quick getaway from Barry Cook's house in the morning?

4. What is the shape of Douglas Harmon's Lucretian Cup Award?

5. Why does Janelle tell Maren to "please be good" and not leave the coatroom at her company's Christmas party?

6. In Chapter 2, what does Maren remember talking to her school mate Stuart about when she was in sixth grade?

7. How does Lee initially find out that Maren eats people?

8. Where does Maren think that Janelle (Maren's mom) wants Maren to go after she finds the envelope from her mom?

9. Who does Lee eat for his first time?

10. In Chapter 1, what is the thing that finally makes Maren's mom "see" that Maren ate someone?

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