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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 tell the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three that she should not be asking him about the gun?
(a) Because he does not want to get her involved.
(b) Because she is a girl.
(c) Because she does not want to get involved in this business.
(d) Because that is not a question to ask someone she does not know.

2. How many total bullets does Buck say is in the gun in Chapter Two?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) Two.
(d) 15.

3. What does Buck take out of his pocket in Chapter Two?
(a) A lighter.
(b) The missing bullet.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) A pen.

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

5. What does Will pretend to himself that he dreams about about in Chapter One, the day after Shawn’s death?
(a) Their family together.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Shawn.
(d) A different life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buck tell Will about giving the gun to Shawn in Chapter Two?

2. What does Will explain to Dani in Chapter Three?

3. What is Will’s plan in Chapter One?

4. What is the anagram Will says in Chapter Two?

5. What are Tony and Will talking about in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the picture of at the beginning of Chapter One? What does this image illustrate for the reader?

2. What does Will compare his mother’s eczema to in Chapter One? And how does he turn this into wordplay talking about the grudges in the neighborhood?

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

4. What happens on the day of the picture that Dani shows to Will in Chapter Three?

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

6. How does Will describe the sadness of losing someone you love in Chapter One?

7. What is the metaphor Will describes in Chapter Three about God displaying his children?

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

9. Why does Will look to Buck for help in Chapter Three? What does Buck do?

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

(see the answer keys)

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