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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. 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.
(c) Gunshots had rang out, and Uncle Mark was killed.
(d) Gunshots had rang out, and Shawn had pushed them down, but Dani was shot.

2. What does Will describe in the first poem of Chapter Two?
(a) The Elevator Rules.
(b) How to make ice cream.
(c) How to make ice cream.
(d) The Street Rules.

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

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

5. Why does Will not let himself cry in Chapter One?
(a) Because he does not want to let out his grief.
(b) Because he has been raised with the damaging idea that men do not cry.
(c) Because it is against The Rules.
(d) Because he has never seen his older brother or dad cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Buck to Shawn, as said by Will in Chapter Two?

2. What did Shawn teach Will how to do on the playground as Will tells us in Chapter One?

3. What does Buck take out of his pocket in Chapter Two?

4. What is the anagram that Will thinks of when he realizes the girl is Dani in Chapter Three?

5. What does Will explain to Dani in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Will think has killed Shawn in Chapter One? Why does Will think this?

4. What are the people in Will’s neighborhood trained to do when there are gunshots, as described by Will in Chapter One?

5. What happens on the day of the picture that Dani shows to Will in Chapter Three?

6. Why does Will look to Buck for help in Chapter Three? What does Buck do?

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

8. How does Shawn come to teach Will The Rules as explained in Chapter Three? What does Will feel after he is taught the Rules?

9. What does Will compare his mother’s eczema to in Chapter One? And how does he turn this into wordplay talking about the grudges in the neighborhood?

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

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