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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 does Maren start telling Jason about the dewy decimal system once they are all alone?

2. What is the one word that Frank fills up the rest of the notebook with in all the different crayon colors?

3. What does Frank say about his biological parents?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 11, who comes to Maren in a dream?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Lee feel about seeing Sully at the carnival?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

What role does food play in the story? What kind of food do the characters eat when they are not eating people? Why do you think DeAngelis chose that kind of food?

Essay Topic 3

What is Maren's experience of friendship? Why is she unable to maintain a friendship with a boy? Do the boys that Maren meets really want friendship? Is friendship what Maren wants? Do you think Maren would have eaten all those boys if all they truly wanted was friendship?

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