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

2. What does the boy in green jersey see Maren doing?

3. What does Maren discover about about Mrs. Harmon after she wakes up from her first nap?

4. What is happening to Mrs. Harmon the second time Maren wakes up in Mrs. Harmon's house?

5. What is the name of Maren's first babysitter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Luke and Maren meet?

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

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 1, standing outside the makeshift tent with Luke, what does Maren remember that she felt for the first time?

8. Who does Lee eat for his first time?

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

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

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 2

What role do fairytales and myths play in the story? Do you think Bones and All could be considered a type of fairytale? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Lee let Maren eat him? What are the circumstances surrounding that moment? What are the differences in regard to honesty and intention between Lee and the other boys Maren has eaten? How does this difference affect how Maren feels afterward? How is Maren changed after eating Lee?

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