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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 Rachel see Lee doing?

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

3. How does Travis find out about other "eaters"?

4. What do Lee and Maren eat for dinner the night they stay in the model home?

5. How does Jason get Maren all to himself?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Frank mutilate his own hand?

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

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

5. Why does Sully try to kill Maren?

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

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

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

9. How does Travis get Maren to come home with him?

10. Why does Maren's mom become afraid of Frank?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Sully represent for Maren? How does her view of him change over the course of the story? How does Maren's view of Sully inform Maren's view of herself?

Essay Topic 2

What role does truth play in Bones and All? What truth is Maren running away from? What truth helps her? What truth supports her? What truths does she decide she does not need to tell? How does telling the truth to Jason in Chapter 12 mark a shift for Maren?

Essay Topic 3

What point do you think DeAngelis is trying to make about eating meat? How does Maren's experience of being an "eater" reflect our own desires to eat meat? What do you think she is trying to say in regard to the way Sully can eat an entire human and still be hungry afterward?

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