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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 does Lee get into Keri-Ann's room after Sully has locked Maren in there?

2. What does Maren start doing for work in Chapter 12?

3. What book does Maren look at in the Sandhorn library?

4. Who did Travis live with before he starts living alone?

5. What do Lee and Maren eat for dinner the night they stay in the model home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maren know that she ate Lee?

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

3. What is Lee trying to convince Maren of in regard to Sully while Lee and Maren are at the carnival?

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

5. What does Travis give Maren that Frank has prepared in advance?

6. What does Maren find out about what happened when Frank was a boy and a man at a gas station?

7. Why does Lee eat the girl who works the ball-toss booth?

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

9. What does Maren find out about how her mother felt about being pregnant with Maren?

10. At the beginning of Chapter 11, who picks up Lee and Maren?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Bones and All is told in the first person point of view, exclusively from Maren's perspective. Why do you think DeAngelis chose to tell the story from Maren's perspective? How does this affect the plot and the development of the other characters?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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