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

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

3. What does Buck do to diffuse the situation between Will and Dani in Chapter Three?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Comfort Dani.
(c) Make snide commentary.
(d) Offer Dani a cigarette.

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

5. In Chapter Two, what does Will tell Buck he is going to do?
(a) Get out of town.
(b) Sell Buck's gun.
(c) Follow The Rules.
(d) Shoot Buck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dani ask when Will asks about her smoking in Chapter Three?

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

3. What had also happened that day in the picture as told in Chapter Three?

4. What does Buck tell Will about Will going to follow The Rules in Chapter Two?

5. What does Buck tell Will to do when Will is scared by the elevator in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. What does Will think Buck is thinking about him in Chapter Two? What does Will assert about himself to the reader in response?

9. What does Will insist to the reader directly after he introduces himself in the beginning of Chapter One? Why does he say he does this?

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

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