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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Will decide not to flirt with the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three?
(a) Because he wants to get to know who she is first.
(b) Because the elevator is a short ride.
(c) Because he needs to have his head together for his plan.
(d) Because there is a ghost in the elevator.

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

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

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

5. Who is the gang that Riggs is a part of, as said in Chapter Two?
(a) Dark Suns.
(b) Dark Sons.
(c) Apocalypse Now.
(d) Shirt Less.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are Tony and Will talking about in Chapter One?

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

4. Who do we learn in Chapter Two taught Shawn The Rules?

5. What is happening to Buck’s cigarette in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dani ask Will when he tells her his plan in Chapter Three? How does he respond?

2. What is the picture of at the beginning of Chapter One? What does this image illustrate for the reader?

3. Who gets on the elevator in Chapter Three? How do Will and the new person first interact?

4. In Chapter Two, how is the man who gets onto the elevator with Will described? How does Will find out he is Buck?

5. What is Will’s emotional and mental state when he sees Shawn is dead? What sensory details or figurative details from the novel tell us how he is thinking?

6. Why does Will tell Dani he needs the gun in Chapter Three? Why does Will explain The Rules to Dani?

7. What does Will describe as a “strange thing” in the beginning of Chapter Two? What does he call this?

8. How does Will describe the sadness of losing someone you love in Chapter One?

9. What is a Penny Drop? What does Will tell the reader about a Penny Drop in Chapter One?

10. What is Will’s plan with Shawn’s gun in Chapter One?

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