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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 the boy in green jersey see Maren doing?

2. How do Lee and Maren leave the Walmart parking lot?

3. In Chapter 2, Who appears in Maren's dream when she falls asleep in the abandoned Cadillac?

4. What happens to Andy in his car?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 6, what does Maren try to do while Lee is out giving his sister a driving lesson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maren think of when she see Mrs. Harmon's spare room?

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

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

4. What did Lee find in Maren's bag that belonged to Jamie?

5. When Lee looks inside Maren's bag after their driving lesson, he finds some books that do not belong to Maren. Who do they belong to?

6. What do Lee and Maren talk about while they are lying on Barry Cook's water bed?

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

8. What does Maren do when she finds her maternal grandparent's house? Does she talk to her mom?

9. In Chapter 1, why did Maren's mom take Maren out to dinner and a movie and treat Maren so especially well?

10. What does Lee find when he opens Maren's journal when they arrive at Lee's aunt's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Maren's experience of friendship? Why is she unable to maintain a friendship with a boy? Do the boys that Maren meets really want friendship? Is friendship what Maren wants? Do you think Maren would have eaten all those boys if all they truly wanted was friendship?

Essay Topic 2

Maren, Lee, and Sully all have normal thoughts and behaviors except for their special ability and desire to eat people. Why does DeAngelis write the characters this way? How does this choice affect the story? How does this choice affect you as you read the story?

Essay Topic 3

The reader sees Maren's experience with various boys. How do the boys' desire, temptation, and persistence reflect Maren's desires, temptation, resistance, and indulgence? Consider the boys' initial offer of innocent kindness, which inevitably leads to the boys asking for something romantic or physical from Maren; Their veiled need to get something from Maren. Maren's innocent acceptance of friendship, which inevitably leads to her perfunctory resistance and her need to get something from the boy that she is with.

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