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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 little boy does Jane describe in Part One as being “like a premature middle-aged man. Always a worried look on his face, always carrying one or two library books.”
(a) Vaughn Masterson
(b) Marty Sanders
(c) Amos Dalton
(d) Randy Pierce

2. What is the name of the high school that Jane attends in the novel?
(a) Landside High
(b) Petersville High
(c) McKinley High
(d) Burnside High

3. What kind of liquor is Buddy drinking in his father’s garage in Part One?
(a) Seagram’s Gin
(b) Jack Daniels Whiskey
(c) Crown Whiskey
(d) Malibu Rum

4. What does Jane recall as the “worst mark of her life” in Part One?
(a) A C-plus in English
(b) A D-minus in P.E>
(c) A C-minus in Math
(d) A D in History

5. The title of We All Fall Down comes from what literary allusion in the novel?
(a) The Raven
(b) Humpty Dumpty
(c) Days of Our Lives
(d) Ring Around the Rosy

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Jane and Karen’s mother in the novel?

2. What is the Avenger’s primary mode of transportation in Part One?

3. What does Jane tell her friends people call Mickey Stallings behind his back in Part One?

4. How many beer cans are left behind from the home invaders in the beginning of Part One?

5. What is Jane’s favorite color, and the color that her room had been painted prior to the home invasion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jane Jerome upset when the narrative switches to her storyline in the beginning of Part One?

2. What information does Mr. Jerome relate to his family regarding the arrest of one of the home invaders in Part One?

3. How does Jane discover Buddy’s drinking in Part Two? How does she address the issue?

4. What is significant about the title of We All Fall Down? From where is this title derived?

5. How does the narrator in Part One describe the character of the Avenger? How old is he said to be?

6. How is Vaughn Masterson’s death described in the newspapers?

7. Where does the Avenger spend much of his time trying to track down the vandals who destroyed the Jerome home in Part One? What impression does he have when he encounters Jane Jerome here?

8. How and why does the Avenger go about killing Vaughn Masterson?

9. At what time do the home invaders depart the Jerome home in the beginning of Part One? What damage is left in their wake?

10. What news does Buddy receive when he arrives at school in the opening of Part Two?

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