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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Will decide not to flirt with the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three?
(a) Because the elevator is a short ride.
(b) Because there is a ghost in the elevator.
(c) Because he needs to have his head together for his plan.
(d) Because he wants to get to know who she is first.

2. What is the anagram on Will’s wall, as we learn in Chapter One?
(a) THE RULES = THEE SLUR
(b) SCARE = CARES
(c) DISILLUSIONMENT = MEND ILLUSIONIST
(d) SCARE = WHO CARES

3. What does Buck tell Will to do when Will is scared by the elevator in Chapter Two?
(a) “Manage your anger” (97).
(b) “Relax … it’s a long way down” (97).
(c) “Be zen” (97).
(d) “Don’t freak out man” (97).

4. How does Will feel on waking up the day after Shawn dies in Chapter One?
(a) Numb.
(b) Sad.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Vengeful.

5. What does Will say in Chapter One about how you, the reader, will be after they hear his story?
(a) He says “you will know him” (2).
(b) He says you will not want to be his friend.
(c) He says you will admire him.
(d) He says you will run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bullets does Buck say there should be in the gun in Chapter Two?

2. Who is the man on the elevator with Will in Chapter Two?

3. What does Will describe in the first poem of Chapter Two?

4. Who was Buck to Shawn, as said by Will in Chapter Two?

5. What did Shawn teach Will how to do on the playground as Will tells us in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dani ask Will when he tells her his plan in Chapter Three? How does he respond?

2. What does Will insist to the reader directly after he introduces himself in the beginning of Chapter One? Why does he say he does this?

3. What does Will describe as a “strange thing” in the beginning of Chapter Two? What does he call this?

4. What are the people in Will’s neighborhood trained to do when there are gunshots, as described by Will in Chapter One?

5. What does Will think of when a man gets on the elevator in Chapter Two and starts looking at Will when Will is not looking?

6. What does Will think Buck is thinking about him in Chapter Two? What does Will assert about himself to the reader in response?

7. How does Shawn come to teach Will The Rules as explained in Chapter Three? What does Will feel after he is taught the Rules?

8. What is Will’s emotional and mental state when he sees Shawn is dead? What sensory details or figurative details from the novel tell us how he is thinking?

9. What does Will say he usually does when bad things happen? Why can he not do this on the day that Shawn dies? Why does he think the moon is “lucky”?

10. Who gets on the elevator in Chapter Three? How do Will and the new person first interact?

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