View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sully offer Maren and Lee when he sees them at the carnival?

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

3. Whose face does Frank have a picture of so that he does not forget?

4. Who does Maren remind Lee of sometimes?

5. Why does Lee eat someone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Maren first meet in her dad's hometown? What is the person's name? What is this person's relation to Maren?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Lee eat Keri-Ann?

10. Why does Frank mutilate his own hand?

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

Maren, Lee, and Sully all have normal thoughts and behaviors except for their special ability and desire to eat people. Why does DeAngelis write the characters this way? How does this choice affect the story? How does this choice affect you as you read the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 665 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample