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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. Why does Maren go to her maternal grandparent's house?
2. Where did Maren meet Luke?
3. Who waves at Maren when she is on the bus with Mrs. Harmon?
4. Where do Lee and Maren stay the first night that they are in Tingley?
5. What does Maren ask Lee to teach her?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Maren go home with Mrs. Harmon?
2. Where does Maren think that Janelle (Maren's mom) wants Maren to go after she finds the envelope from her mom?
3. Why does Janelle tell Maren to "please be good" and not leave the coatroom at her company's Christmas party?
4. How is it that Maren can be friends with Sully without Sully being in danger of being eaten?
5. Who is the first person that Maren eats?
6. In Chapter 1, why did Maren's mom take Maren out to dinner and a movie and treat Maren so especially well?
7. Who does Lee eat for his first time?
8. What did Lee find in Maren's bag that belonged to Jamie?
9. In Chapter 2, what does Maren remember talking to her school mate Stuart about when she was in sixth grade?
10. Why does Lee ask Maren to stay inside his aunt's house while he goes out to meet Kayla?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role does truth play in Bones and All? What truth is Maren running away from? What truth helps her? What truth supports her? What truths does she decide she does not need to tell? How does telling the truth to Jason in Chapter 12 mark a shift for Maren?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
What point do you think DeAngelis is trying to make about eating meat? How does Maren's experience of being an "eater" reflect our own desires to eat meat? What do you think she is trying to say in regard to the way Sully can eat an entire human and still be hungry afterward?
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