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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. In Chapter 2, What kind of stories does Maren collect in her journal?

2. What does the boy in the green jersey do to the drunken cowboy?

3. How many girls has Maren eaten when she meets Lee?

4. What does Sully call the dish that he cooks for himself and Maren at Mrs. Harmon's house?

5. Who comes biking over to where Lee and Maren are staying in Tingley?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Maren not in danger of being eaten by Sully?

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

5. How do Luke and Maren meet?

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

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

8. Who is the first person that Maren eats?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How is Lee able to maintain a friendship with Maren? Does it help that Lee knows that Maren is an "eater"? How does this information help Lee and Maren maintain their friendship?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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