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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 does Will tell Marcus about what Ellie told him in Chapter 20?
(a) She was telling him the truth.
(b) She was protecting Marcus.
(c) She isn't as smart as she thinks she is.
(d) She was making fun of him by telling him a lie.

2. What does Fiona conclude of Will when they go out for a drink in Chapter 18?
(a) He is dangerous.
(b) He is self-centered.
(c) He is a mystery.
(d) He is charitable.

3. Why is Will unhappy in Chapter 18?
(a) His date has stood him up.
(b) Marcus has broken an expensive vase in his home.
(c) He is sick for the first time in three years.
(d) He has heard his father's song a full five weeks before Christmas.

4. Why does Marcus wait outside the news agent's in Chapter 27?
(a) He is meeting someone there.
(b) He has no money to spend.
(c) The clerk does not want too many people in the store.
(d) He is scared of the clerk.

5. What does Marcus tell Ellie in Chapter 21?
(a) That he has a crush on her.
(b) That he knows that the man on her sweatshirt is Kurt Cobain.
(c) That she is a mean person.
(d) That she has nice eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Will fall in love with?

2. What does Marcus tell Will about when he gets to his apartment in Chapter 20?

3. What does Marcus do at the end of Chapter 26?

4. What does Marcus argue with his mother about in Chapter 17?

5. What makes Ellie and Zoe laugh in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who argues in Chapter 23?

2. What happens outside a news agent in Chapter 27?

3. What lie does Will tell Rachel?

4. Who is Ellie? What do Ellie and Marcus talk about in Chapter 19?

5. What deal do Marcus and Will make in Chapter 26?

6. What does the reader learn about Ellie's mother in Chapter 25?

7. Why does Fiona suggest that Marcus visit his father? What makes Marcus agree to go?

8. How do Ellie and Zoe react in Chapter 21 when Marcus tells them that he knows Ellie was lying to him before?

9. How does Fiona react when she finds out about Marcus' visits to Will's house?

10. Why does Marcus run out of the house in Chapter 26?

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