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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. Why does Maren study the babylonians?

2. Where do Lee and Maren meet up after Maren meets Barbara?

3. What is Barbara's biological son's name?

4. What does Sully have cooking for Lee and Maren at his cabin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Travis want what he does from Maren?

2. Why does Frank mutilate his own hand?

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

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

5. What does Maren want from Jason?

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

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

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

9. Why does Lee eat Keri-Ann?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Mrs. Harmon and Sully are both people that Maren looks up to. How do Mrs. Harmon and Sully contrast each other? Mrs. Harmon does not know that Maren is an "eater." How does that enable Mrs. Harmon to see a deeper truth about Maren? Sully knows that Maren is an "eater" and accepts her for it, how does that affect Maren?

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