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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 is the person's destination who gives Lee and Maren a lift from Laskin Park?
2. Where do Lee and Maren sleep when they arrive in Tarbridge?
3. Why does Maren study the babylonians?
4. How long has Frank lived at the hospital?
5. What does Frank write about what happened when he was a boy and that man from the bus locked him in the bathroom?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Maren's mom become afraid of Frank?
2. What does Maren find out about how her mother felt about being pregnant with Maren?
3. Who does Maren first meet in her dad's hometown? What is the person's name? What is this person's relation to Maren?
4. Why does Frank mutilate his own hand?
5. Why does Barbara say that it is not possible for Maren to have a life with Maren's dad?
6. How does Maren know that she ate Lee?
7. Maren runs away from Sully and finds Travis' car abandoned a short way down the road. What happened to Travis?
8. 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?
9. How does Maren get her job at the college?
10. At the carnival, when do Lee and Maren spot Sully?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
What are the different family dynamics that Maren has compared to Lee? Consider Maren relationship with her mom and dad as compared to Lee's relationship with his mom and dad.
Essay Topic 3
Describe Maren's relationship with her mom. Maren's inner monologue in relation to her mom changes over the course of the book. Describe the change that happens in Maren. Do you think Maren is lying to herself about some of the things she thinks about her mom?
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