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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Will think the yellow tape the police put up does to the crime scene in Chapter One?
(a) Fluttered with a reminder of what had happened.
(b) Gives it a surreal atmosphere.
(c) Frames the crime scene like art.
(d) Isolated a part of the neighborhood.

3. What is the anagram on Will’s wall, as we learn in Chapter One?
(a) SCARE = CARES
(b) SCARE = WHO CARES
(c) DISILLUSIONMENT = MEND ILLUSIONIST
(d) THE RULES = THEE SLUR

4. In Chapter One, what does the morning light remind Will of?
(a) The fireflies he would catch with Shawn.
(b) The Sunny-side up eggs that Will likes to eat for breakfast.
(c) The sunrises he would watch with Shawn on the roof of their building.
(d) The song “Black and Yellow” by Wiz Khalifa.

5. 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 has been raised with the damaging idea that men do not cry.
(c) Because it is against The Rules.
(d) Because he does not want to let out his grief.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Will’s full name that he tells the reader in Chapter One?

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

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

5. What happened when Shawn was 15 that make Tony and Will hopeful in Chapter One?

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