View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we learn that Shawn taught Will the night after Dani died?
(a) Rule number three of The Rules.
(b) How to grieve.
(c) Rule number one of The Rules.
(d) How to cook hard boiled eggs.

2. What is the anagram that Will thinks of when he realizes the girl is Dani in Chapter Three?
(a) PAIN = IP AN.
(b) FEEL = FLEE.
(c) AGAIN = A GAIN.
(d) WHATEVER = NEVER.

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

4. What is the anagram on Will’s wall, as we learn in Chapter One?
(a) DISILLUSIONMENT = MEND ILLUSIONIST
(b) SCARE = WHO CARES
(c) THE RULES = THEE SLUR
(d) SCARE = CARES

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many bullets does Buck say there should be in the gun in Chapter Two?

3. What does Will think the yellow tape the police put up does to the crime scene in Chapter One?

4. How does Will realize in Chapter Three that the girl on the elevator is Dani?

5. What does Will think about himself when he thinks that Buck is not taking him seriously in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the metaphor Will describes in Chapter Three about God displaying his children?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,058 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample