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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter One, what does Will say he has never been in?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) A spaceship.
(c) A roller-coaster.
(d) An earthquake.

2. What does Dani ask Will about his plan in Chapter Three?
(a) If he can find some other way to resolve this pain.
(b) What will happen if Will misses.
(c) If he wants to go to jail.
(d) If he has really thought this through.

3. What does Will find “even sadder” when he speaks about Shawn’s death in Chapter One?
(a) That it was inevitable.
(b) That Shawn was killed instead of Will.
(c) That Shawn was so young.
(d) That Shawn’s death is not surprising.

4. How does Buck laughing at Will feel to Will in Chapter Two?
(a) Like being told he is a little child.
(b) Like mocking.
(c) Like a “bullet’s bang” (100).
(d) Like the laughter is "tearing him apart' (100).

5. What did Shawn teach Will how to do on the playground as Will tells us in Chapter One?
(a) A Penny Drop.
(b) Flirt with girls.
(c) Climb the monkey bars.
(d) Graffiti the walls.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What scares Will at the end of Chapter Two?

4. What does Will pretend to himself that he dreams about about in Chapter One, the day after Shawn’s death?

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

(see the answer key)

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