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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. Where does Will put Shawn’s gun in Chapter One?
(a) Back in the drawer where Will found it.
(b) In the back waistband of his pants, underneath his t-shirt.
(c) Into a pawn shop.
(d) He hands it over to the police.

2. What did Will do the night that Dani died as told in Chapter Three?
(a) Cried all night.
(b) Found their old hiding spot and sat in it.
(c) Read their old letters to one another.
(d) Punched holes in everything.

3. What does Will think of when he takes Shawn’s gun out from under his pillow after waking up in Chapter One?
(a) Of holding Shawn’s hand while walking to the store, and being taught to do a Penny Drop.
(b) Of how cold it is.
(c) Of how afraid he is.
(d) Of how much he dislikes guns.

4. What does Will explain to Dani in Chapter Three?
(a) The Rules.
(b) How to do a Penny Drop.
(c) How to flirt.
(d) How to load a gun.

5. What does Will say it feels like sometimes when he thinks about Dani’s death in Chapter Three?
(a) Like he never had a childhood as he sees on TV.
(b) That God is showing pictures of his children, but no one wants to see.
(c) That this life feels like a mirage that he could slip right through.
(d) That the grief he has held for so long is splitting inside of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Will decide not to flirt with the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three?

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

3. Why does Buck say he is there in the elevator in Chapter Two?

4. What does Will know is in Shawn’s corner-store bag in Chapter One?

5. How does Will feel on waking up the day after Shawn dies in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Will tell Dani he needs the gun in Chapter Three? Why does Will explain The Rules to Dani?

2. Who does Will think has killed Shawn in Chapter One? Why does Will think this?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

8. In Chapter Two, how is the man who gets onto the elevator with Will described? How does Will find out he is Buck?

9. Who was Buck to Shawn as described in Chapter Two? What does Buck give Shawn and teach him?

10. 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?

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