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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 Maren gargle with all the time?
2. How does Maren's mom explain Maren's malnourished appearance?
3. Where does Maren's mom take Maren to eat on her birthday?
4. At Janelle's boss' Christmas party, where does Maren hide?
5. When Maren is in the car leaving summer camp, what does Maren think that Luke's blood tastes like?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 1, why did Maren's mom take Maren out to dinner and a movie and treat Maren so especially well?
2. In Chapter 2, what does Maren remember talking to her school mate Stuart about when she was in sixth grade?
3. Who does Lee eat for his first time?
4. Where does Maren end up that night after leaving her grandparent's house?
5. Why do Lee and Maren have to make a quick getaway from Barry Cook's house in the morning?
6. In Chapter 1, standing outside the makeshift tent with Luke, what does Maren remember that she felt for the first time?
7. In Chapter 1, what is the thing that finally makes Maren's mom "see" that Maren ate someone?
8. In Chapter 2, Maren thinks, "Sometimes out the blue I'd have that taste in my mouth" (35). What taste is she talking about?
9. Why does Maren keep specific pictures in her journal?
10. What happens to Mrs. Harmon when she lies down for a nap? Why is Sully waiting for this to happen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role do dreams play in the story? Why does DeAngelis choose to give the reader opportunities to read Maren's dreams? How does this affect the story and the reader?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
After Maren finds her mom at Maren's grandparent's house, why do you think Maren decides not to talk to her mother? What does Maren think she starts to understand about her mother?
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