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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter One .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Will not let himself cry in Chapter One?
(a) Because he has never seen his older brother or dad cry.
(b) Because he does not want to let out his grief.
(c) Because he has been raised with the damaging idea that men do not cry.
(d) Because it is against The Rules.

2. What does Will say one has to do to make it big in basketball in Chapter One?
(a) Dance.
(b) Have a rich dad.
(c) Fly.
(d) Rocket.

3. What are Tony and Will talking about in Chapter One?
(a) If they will be allowed to go to the dances now that they are 15.
(b) If Shawn will let them hang out with his older friends now that they are 15.
(c) If they will get girlfriends now that they are 15.
(d) If they will grow taller now that they are 15.

4. What are The Rules in Chapter One?
(a) No crying, and treat others how you want to be treated.
(b) No crying, no snitching, and if someone kills someone you love, then kill them.
(c) No snitching, and do unto others as they do to you.
(d) No crying, no snitching, and do not kill anyone.

5. What is Will’s random thought in Chapter One?
(a) That the streetlights are golden.
(b) That blood looks like chocolate syrup.
(c) That he did not eat dinner.
(d) That he wishes he had a different life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Shawn teach Will how to do on the playground as Will tells us in Chapter One?

3. What does the gun in the back of his waistband feel like to Will in Chapter One?

4. What does Will say in Chapter One about how you, the reader, will be after they hear his story?

5. In Chapter One, where do we learn Will and his mother live?

(see the answer key)

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