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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. When Lee and Maren stop for a new tire, what else does Lee get the mechanic to do for an additional fee?

2. What does Lee ask Maren while they are driving that makes Maren cry?

3. Who is the first person that Sully eats?

4. What does Maren dream of the night that she leaves summer camp?

5. Where do Lee and Maren sleep the night after Barry Cook's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Maren keep specific pictures in her journal?

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

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

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

5. How does Maren first find out her father's name?

6. In Chapter 1, why does Maren think that she has an earache? Who does she think came to her in her dream?

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

8. What happens to Maren on the bus ride home to Mrs. Harmon's house?

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

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

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

What does Travis want from Maren? How are his desires and how he presents them different from the various boys' desires of Maren and the boys tend to present their desires? What are the differences in Maren's reaction to Travis compared to Maren's reaction to the boys she had met earlier in her life?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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