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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the man who gets on the elevator wearing in Chapter Two?
(a) A puffy jacket.
(b) Gold earrings.
(c) Gold chains.
(d) A gold ring.

2. What does Will think the middle drawer of Shawn’s dresser looks like in Chapter One?
(a) A crooked tooth.
(b) A broken reminder of the state of their lives.
(c) A portal to another reality.
(d) A wedged door.

3. What does Buck tell Will about giving the gun to Shawn in Chapter Two?
(a) That he told Shawn to sell it after Shawn used it.
(b) That he told Shawn to put it somewhere that Will would not get.
(c) That Buck had first stolen it from someone else.
(d) That he told Shawn to pass it on to Will.

4. How does Will think of potentially flirting with the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three?
(a) By doing an impression of Shawn, which is Shawn’s best impression of Buck.
(b) By imitating what he has seen on TV.
(c) By imitating his friend, Tony.
(d) By acting smooth.

5. What does Dani ask when Will asks about her smoking in Chapter Three?
(a) “Why, do you want one?” (146).
(b) “You shoot?” (146).
(c) “Why don’t you?” (146).
(d) “Are you really going to judge me?” (146).

6. What does Will explain to Dani in Chapter Three?
(a) How to load a gun.
(b) How to flirt.
(c) How to do a Penny Drop.
(d) The Rules.

7. What is Will’s full name that he tells the reader in Chapter One?
(a) William Holloman.
(b) Willow Holloman.
(c) Will Holonman.
(d) William the Man.

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

9. How does Buck press Will’s chest in Chapter Two?
(a) Like “pushing an elevator button” (101).
(b) Like “poking a bear” (101).
(c) Like “punching in his gut” (101).
(d) Like “tapping an app” (101).

10. Who steps onto the elevator in Chapter Three?
(a) Buck.
(b) Uncle Mark.
(c) A girl wearing a flower dress, low heels, and perfume.
(d) Will's dad.

11. What does Will say it feels like sometimes when he thinks about Dani’s death in Chapter Three?
(a) Like he never had a childhood as he sees on TV.
(b) That God is showing pictures of his children, but no one wants to see.
(c) That the grief he has held for so long is splitting inside of him.
(d) That this life feels like a mirage that he could slip right through.

12. 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.

13. In Chapter One, what does Will say happened to his brother Shawn?
(a) Shawn picked up soap for his mother.
(b) Shawn got married to his girlfriend Leticia.
(c) Shawn was shot and killed.
(d) Shawn was picked on by some thugs.

14. What does the girl first say to Will in Chapter Three?
(a) Boy, put your eyes back where they belong” (112).
(b) “Leave me alone” (112).
(c) “It’s rude to look at someone like that” (112).
(d) “I didn’t know smoking was allowed in elevators” (112).

15. What does Dani ask Will when she first gets on the elevator in Chapter Three?
(a) Why he never hit on her.
(b) What he needs a gun for.
(c) Why he did not protect Shawn.
(d) Why he does not recognize her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Will feels silly telling Buck that Shawn is dead in Chapter Two?

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

4. Where does Will put Shawn’s gun in Chapter One?

5. How does Will realize in Chapter Three that the girl on the elevator is Dani?

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