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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. Who did Travis live with before he starts living alone?

2. Why can Frank not speak?

3. How does Maren get away from Sully?

4. What is the vision that Maren gets of herself when Frank writes about being in love against his better judgement?

5. Where does Frank meet Janelle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Why does Sully try to kill Maren?

5. What special knowledge does Travis have about Frank?

6. How does Maren know that she ate Lee?

7. At the carnival, when do Lee and Maren spot Sully?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do fairytales and myths play in the story? Do you think Bones and All could be considered a type of fairytale? Why or why not?

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

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?

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