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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 happens when police ask questions after Shawn’s death in Chapter One?
(a) New leads come up.
(b) The police get answers.
(c) Everyone names someone different.
(d) Everyone turns to stone.

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 run away.
(b) He says you will not want to be his friend.
(c) He says you will admire him.
(d) He says “you will know him” (2).

3. What does the gun in the back of his waistband feel like to Will in Chapter One?
(a) Like a reminder of vengeance.
(b) Like a powerful extra vertebrae.
(c) Like an angry cat scratching at his back.
(d) Like a brick rubbing his skin raw.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who steps onto the elevator in Chapter Three?

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

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

5. What is Will’s random thought in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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”?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

10. After Will tells Buck what he is going to do, what does Buck tell Will about his plan to follow The Rules in Chapter Two? How does he compare Will to Shawn?

(see the answer keys)

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