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

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

3. What does Dani ask when Will asks about her smoking in Chapter Three?
(a) “Why, do you want one?” (146).
(b) “Are you really going to judge me?” (146).
(c) “Why don’t you?” (146).
(d) “You shoot?” (146).

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

5. What scares Will at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) Buck laughing at him.
(b) The elevator cable being cut.
(c) The elevator grinding to a halt.
(d) The elevator rumbling and taking a while.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gun in the back of his waistband feel like to Will in Chapter One?

2. In Chapter One, what does the morning light remind Will of?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is a Penny Drop? What does Will tell the reader about a Penny Drop in Chapter One?

3. How does Shawn come to teach Will The Rules as explained in Chapter Three? What does Will feel after he is taught the Rules?

4. 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”?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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