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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. How does Maren find out where her father is from?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what does Maren's mom find in Maren's mouth?

3. In Maren's dream, who does she know painted the words on the walls?

4. When Lee looks through Maren's pack, whose books does he find besides the ones that belong to Maren?

5. Who comes biking over to where Lee and Maren are staying in Tingley?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, why did Maren's mom take Maren out to dinner and a movie and treat Maren so especially well?

2. Where do Lee and Maren go directly after taking the drunken cowboy's truck?

3. When Lee looks inside Maren's bag after their driving lesson, he finds some books that do not belong to Maren. Who do they belong to?

4. Why does Lee ask Maren to stay inside his aunt's house while he goes out to meet Kayla?

5. How do Luke and Maren meet?

6. How is it that Maren can be friends with Sully without Sully being in danger of being eaten?

7. In Chapter 1, standing outside the makeshift tent with Luke, what does Maren remember that she felt for the first time?

8. What does Lee find when he opens Maren's journal when they arrive at Lee's aunt's house?

9. Why do Lee and Maren have to make a quick getaway from Barry Cook's house in the morning?

10. What happens with Maren and Jamie at Janelle's boss' Christmas party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

How does learning the truth about Frank affect Maren? How does it affect you as the reader? At the end of Chapter 10, Maren says that she came all the way back to Frank's hospital but realized that she had no intention of seeing him again. Why do you think Maren decides she does not need to see her father again? How does her choice signify a resolution in Maren? What do you think that resolution is for Maren?

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