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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. Jane comes to learn that the Avenger’s murders of the school bully and his grandfather took place how many years ago in the end of Part Two?
(a) 30
(b) 25
(c) 10
(d) 20

2. When the Avenger first sees Jane and Buddy together, he is standing on Main Street in front of what store in Part Two?
(a) Wickburg Fashions
(b) Peterson’s Drug Store
(c) Dupont’s Drug Store
(d) Jackson Dry Cleaners

3. Who taps on Buddy’s car window when he awakens in the parking lot at the hospital in Part Two?
(a) Kate Jerome
(b) Jane Jerome
(c) A security guard
(d) Harry Flowers

4. When Jane begins to shout at the Avenger as she’s tied to the chair in Part Two, he tells her, “Don’t yell—don’t scream. If you scream, I’ll have to do to you what I did to Vaughn Masterson and” whom?
(a) My grandfather
(b) My father
(c) My grandmother
(d) My mother

5. The narrator says in Part Two that “Jane found out about Buddy’s drinking in the lobby of” what?
(a) The doctor’s office
(b) The Burnside Public Library
(c) The Wickburg Cinema
(d) The school nurse’s office

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it when Jane and Buddy run into one another at the mall after their breakup in Part Two?

2. What is the name of the bum that Buddy uses to buy him liquor?

3. What boy does Jane recall having had a crush on “who played the lead in the school’s abbreviated version of Grease” in Part Two?

4. How old does the Avenger tell Jane he is in Part Two?

5. Buddy considers going to the Mall to surprise Jane and her mother and buy them coffee where in Part Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Avenger kill himself in Part Two? Why does he kill himself?

2. Who are the protagonists in the novel? How are these protagonists different?

3. What revelation does the Avenger reveal to Jane as she is entrapped in Part Two? How does Jane respond?

4. Where does the Avenger first spy Buddy and Jane together in Part Two? What is his response?

5. Describe the narrative point of view in We All Fall Down. In what ways is this narrative style sophisticated?

6. How does the author characterize the relationship between Buddy and Jane prior to their breakup in the novel?

7. What happens when Jane enters the abandoned shed at the empty lot in Part Two?

8. What is the principle reason for Jane’s feelings of isolation after the abduction in Part Two?

9. What does the character of the Avenger represent symbolically in the novel?

10. What is unexpected about the breakup of Jane and Buddy in Part Two?

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