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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. 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

2. In Chapter One, where do we learn Will and his mother live?
(a) On the fifth floor.
(b) On the seventh floor.
(c) On the ground level.
(d) On the eighth floor.

3. What did Shawn teach Will how to do on the playground as Will tells us in Chapter One?
(a) Graffiti the walls.
(b) A Penny Drop.
(c) Flirt with girls.
(d) Climb the monkey bars.

4. What does Will describe in the first poem of Chapter Two?
(a) How to make ice cream.
(b) How to make ice cream.
(c) The Street Rules.
(d) The Elevator Rules.

5. In Chapter One, what does Will say he has never been in?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A roller-coaster.
(c) A spaceship.
(d) A tsunami.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter One, what does the morning light remind Will of?

2. What does Buck tell Will to do when Will is scared by the elevator in Chapter Two?

3. What does Buck ask Will about the gun in Chapter Two that Will has not thought about?

4. What does Will find “even sadder” when he speaks about Shawn’s death in Chapter One?

5. What is the anagram that Will thinks of when he realizes the girl is Dani in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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”?

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

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

5. What does Will think of when the girl in the elevator shows him the picture from her wallet in Chapter Three? Who is in the photo?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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