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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) Gold earrings.
(b) A puffy jacket.
(c) Gold chains.
(d) A gold ring.

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

3. 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 picked on by some thugs.
(d) Shawn was shot and killed.

4. What does Buck take out of his pocket in Chapter Two?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) The missing bullet.
(c) A lighter.
(d) A pen.

5. What is happening to Buck’s cigarette in Chapter Three?
(a) It is screaming.
(b) It is letting out green smoke.
(c) It is emitting a whistling sound.
(d) It is burning, but not burning down.

6. 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 much he dislikes guns.
(b) Of how afraid he is.
(c) Of how cold it is.
(d) Of holding Shawn’s hand while walking to the store, and being taught to do a Penny Drop.

7. What does Buck do when Will acts macho in Chapter Two?
(a) Tell Will he is just a child.
(b) Cower in fear.
(c) Laugh at Will.
(d) Act macho back.

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

9. What does the gun in the back of his waistband feel like to Will in Chapter One?
(a) Like a brick rubbing his skin raw.
(b) Like a reminder of vengeance.
(c) Like an angry cat scratching at his back.
(d) Like a powerful extra vertebrae.

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

11. What are Tony and Will talking about in Chapter One?
(a) If they will grow taller now that they are 15.
(b) If Shawn will let them hang out with his older friends now that they are 15.
(c) If they will be allowed to go to the dances now that they are 15.
(d) If they will get girlfriends now that they are 15.

12. What does Will say it feels like sometimes when he thinks about Dani’s death in Chapter Three?
(a) That God is showing pictures of his children, but no one wants to see.
(b) Like he never had a childhood as he sees on TV.
(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.

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

14. What does Will do when he realizes who is in the man in the elevator in Chapter Two?
(a) Stop the elevator.
(b) Faint.
(c) Give Buck a hug.
(d) Try to wake himself up.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buck do to diffuse the situation between Will and Dani in Chapter Three?

2. In Chapter One, where do we learn Will and his mother live?

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

4. How does Will think of potentially flirting with the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three?

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

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