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

2. How do Lee and Maren get into the model home?

3. What is the vision that Maren gets of herself when Frank writes about being in love against his better judgement?

4. What is the name of the girl running the Luck Toss booth at the carnival?

5. What is Frank's job when he meets Janelle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why does Barbara say that it is not possible for Maren to have a life with Maren's dad?

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

7. Why does Frank leave Maren's mom before she gives birth to Maren?

8. Why does Sully try to kill Maren?

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

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

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

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 3

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?

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