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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the girl do to Will to get Will’s attention in Chapter Three?
(a) Brush her hand against his.
(b) Poke him with her bag.
(c) Kiss him.
(d) Pinch his shoulder.

3. How does Will feel on waking up the day after Shawn dies in Chapter One?
(a) Numb.
(b) Sad.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Vengeful.

4. What did Will do the night that Dani died as told in Chapter Three?
(a) Cried all night.
(b) Found their old hiding spot and sat in it.
(c) Punched holes in everything.
(d) Read their old letters to one another.

5. What does Will pretend to himself that he dreams about about in Chapter One, the day after Shawn’s death?
(a) Shawn.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Their family together.
(d) A different life.

6. What does Will know is in Shawn’s corner-store bag in Chapter One?
(a) A Platinum edition of “Me Against the World.”
(b) New cologne.
(c) His favorite chocolates.
(d) Special soap for his mother's eczema.

7. What does Will try to do as the girl stands in the elevator in Chapter Three?
(a) Get her number.
(b) Figure out who she is.
(c) Check her out.
(d) Kiss her.

8. How does Will realize in Chapter Three that the girl on the elevator is Dani?
(a) She says their secret catchphrase.
(b) She tells him that Will had kissed her on the day the picture was taken.
(c) She tells him where they had hidden their treasure as kids.
(d) She tells him what his deepest secret he had told to her is.

9. What surprises Will about the girl in Chapter Three?
(a) She is pretty.
(b) She can see Buck.
(c) She is a medium.
(d) She can speak to ghosts.

10. What scares Will at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) Buck laughing at him.
(b) The elevator rumbling and taking a while.
(c) The elevator grinding to a halt.
(d) The elevator cable being cut.

11. What does Will say in Chapter One about how you, the reader, will be after they hear his story?
(a) He says you will not want to be his friend.
(b) He says you will run away.
(c) He says “you will know him” (2).
(d) He says you will admire him.

12. What does Will think of when he takes Shawn’s gun out from under his pillow after waking up in Chapter One?
(a) Of how cold it is.
(b) Of how afraid he is.
(c) Of how much he dislikes guns.
(d) Of holding Shawn’s hand while walking to the store, and being taught to do a Penny Drop.

13. Why does Will tell the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three that she should not be asking him about the gun?
(a) Because she is a girl.
(b) Because she does not want to get involved in this business.
(c) Because he does not want to get her involved.
(d) Because that is not a question to ask someone she does not know.

14. Where has the anagram that Will thinks about Dani in Chapter Three also been seen in the novel before?
(a) Silk-screen onto a t-shirt in Will’s closet.
(b) Transcribed on all of Will’s notebooks.
(c) Tattooed on Will’s wrist.
(d) Written on Will’s bedroom wall in pencil.

15. What had also happened that day in the picture as told in Chapter Three?
(a) They had been pushed off of the playground by rival kids.
(b) Gunshots had rang out, and Shawn had pushed them down, but Dani was shot.
(c) Gunshots had rang out, and Shawn had pushed them down.
(d) Gunshots had rang out, and Uncle Mark was killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dani ask Will when she first gets on the elevator in Chapter Three?

2. What does Buck ask Will about the gun in Chapter Two that Will has not thought about?

3. What happens when police ask questions after Shawn’s death in Chapter One?

4. What does Will think when the girl says she knows him in Chapter Three?

5. What does Buck do when Will acts macho in Chapter Two?

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