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

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

3. What does Will say it feels like sometimes when he thinks about Dani’s death in Chapter Three?
(a) That the grief he has held for so long is splitting inside of him.
(b) That God is showing pictures of his children, but no one wants to see.
(c) That this life feels like a mirage that he could slip right through.
(d) Like he never had a childhood as he sees on TV.

4. Who is the man on the elevator with Will in Chapter Two?
(a) Kanye.
(b) Bob.
(c) Two Chains.
(d) Buck.

5. In Chapter One, what does Will say happened to his brother Shawn?
(a) Shawn was shot and killed.
(b) Shawn picked up soap for his mother.
(c) Shawn got married to his girlfriend Leticia.
(d) Shawn was picked on by some thugs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Two, what does Will tell Buck he is going to do?

3. What are The Rules in Chapter One?

4. What is Will’s full name that he tells the reader in Chapter One?

5. Why does Will decide not to flirt with the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. What does Will think of when the girl in the elevator shows him the picture from her wallet in Chapter Three? Who is in the photo?

9. 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”?

10. 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?

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