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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. Where do Lee and Maren meet up after Maren meets Barbara?

2. What does Frank say about Travis?

3. What does Janelle see Frank doing that makes her afraid of him?

4. Where does Maren start spending her days when she is living in Keri-Ann's room?

5. Where does Frank meet Janelle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Maren's paternal grandparents adopt Maren's dad?

2. Why does Maren's mom become afraid of Frank?

3. Why does Lee eat Keri-Ann?

4. Maren runs away from Sully and finds Travis' car abandoned a short way down the road. What happened to Travis?

5. What does Mrs. Harmon say about Sully in Maren's dream of her and Mrs. Harmon talking? What does Mrs. Harmon say about Maren in Maren's dream?

6. For whom does Maren start dressing differently? Why?

7. Why does Frank mutilate his own hand?

8. What special knowledge does Travis have about Frank?

9. How does Travis get Maren to come home with him?

10. How does Maren get her job at the college?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Sully represent for Maren? How does her view of him change over the course of the story? How does Maren's view of Sully inform Maren's view of herself?

Essay Topic 2

Mrs. Harmon and Sully are both people that Maren looks up to. How do Mrs. Harmon and Sully contrast each other? Mrs. Harmon does not know that Maren is an "eater." How does that enable Mrs. Harmon to see a deeper truth about Maren? Sully knows that Maren is an "eater" and accepts her for it, how does that affect Maren?

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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