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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many total bullets does Buck say is in the gun in Chapter Two?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) Two.

2. What happens when police ask questions after Shawn’s death in Chapter One?
(a) Everyone turns to stone.
(b) The police get answers.
(c) New leads come up.
(d) Everyone names someone different.

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

4. What does Buck ask Will about the gun in Chapter Two that Will has not thought about?
(a) If Shawn would have wanted him to shoot the gun.
(b) If the gun is loaded.
(c) If the gun has an evil spirit inside.
(d) If Will has ever shot a gun before.

5. What does Will think about himself when he thinks that Buck is not taking him seriously in Chapter Two?
(a) That Buck does not actually know him.
(b) That he does not want Buck’s approval anyway.
(c) That he will "show Buck" (98).
(d) That he, Will, is “forreal” (98).

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Buck press Will’s chest in Chapter Two?

2. What does Will describe in the first poem of Chapter Two?

3. Where has the anagram that Will thinks about Dani in Chapter Three also been seen in the novel before?

4. What do we learn that Shawn taught Will the night after Dani died?

5. Why does Will decide not to flirt with the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three?

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