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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 Jason get Maren all to himself?

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

3. Who watches Frank when he is a boy at school?

4. What is Frank's job when he meets Janelle?

5. Where does Maren want to go from Travis' house?

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. How does Maren know that she ate Lee?

3. What does Maren find out about what happened when Frank was a boy and a man at a gas station?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 11, who picks up Lee and Maren?

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

6. What special knowledge does Travis have about Frank?

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

8. What does Maren want from Jason?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Lee let Maren eat him? What are the circumstances surrounding that moment? What are the differences in regard to honesty and intention between Lee and the other boys Maren has eaten? How does this difference affect how Maren feels afterward? How is Maren changed after eating Lee?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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