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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 were Maren and Luke doing when they met?
2. How do Mrs. Harmon and Maren get to Mrs. Harmon's house?
3. What does Maren ask Lee to teach her?
4. What did Mr. Harmon win the Lucretian Cup for?
5. In Chapter 2, why does Maren wish that there were other people like her?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 1, standing outside the makeshift tent with Luke, what does Maren remember that she felt for the first time?
2. In Chapter 1, what does Luke show Maren that makes her think, later, about things that are not meant to be eaten?
3. In Chapter 1, what is the social worker suspicious of in regard to Maren's mom? Why does the social worker want to talk to Maren's mom?
4. In Chapter 1, why did Maren's mom take Maren out to dinner and a movie and treat Maren so especially well?
5. How do Luke and Maren meet?
6. Where does Maren end up that night after leaving her grandparent's house?
7. In Chapter 2, Maren thinks, "Sometimes out the blue I'd have that taste in my mouth" (35). What taste is she talking about?
8. In Chapter 1, what is the thing that finally makes Maren's mom "see" that Maren ate someone?
9. Who does Lee eat for his first time?
10. In Chapter 2, what does Maren remember talking to her school mate Stuart about when she was in sixth grade?
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
After Maren finds her mom at Maren's grandparent's house, why do you think Maren decides not to talk to her mother? What does Maren think she starts to understand about her mother?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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