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

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

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

4. 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 Uncle Mark was killed.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Shawn was 15 that make Tony and Will hopeful in Chapter One?

2. What does Will say it feels like sometimes when he thinks about Dani’s death in Chapter Three?

3. How many total bullets does Buck say is in the gun in Chapter Two?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Buck to Shawn as described in Chapter Two? What does Buck give Shawn and teach him?

2. What does Will think of when a man gets on the elevator in Chapter Two and starts looking at Will when Will is not looking?

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

4. What does Will think of when Buck tells him his tail is showing in Chapter Two?

5. What does Will say he usually does when bad things happen? Why can he not do this on the day that Shawn dies? Why does he think the moon is “lucky”?

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

7. As told in Chapter Two, what does “L” mean to Shawn and Will? What is the game they used to play on the elevator?

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

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

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

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