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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. How does Buck laughing at Will feel to Will in Chapter Two?
(a) Like being told he is a little child.
(b) Like a “bullet’s bang” (100).
(c) Like mocking.
(d) Like the laughter is "tearing him apart' (100).

2. Where does Will put Shawn’s gun in Chapter One?
(a) Back in the drawer where Will found it.
(b) In the back waistband of his pants, underneath his t-shirt.
(c) He hands it over to the police.
(d) Into a pawn shop.

3. What does Will pretend to himself that he dreams about about in Chapter One, the day after Shawn’s death?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Their family together.
(c) Shawn.
(d) A different life.

4. What does Will think the yellow tape the police put up does to the crime scene in Chapter One?
(a) Fluttered with a reminder of what had happened.
(b) Gives it a surreal atmosphere.
(c) Isolated a part of the neighborhood.
(d) Frames the crime scene like art.

5. What does Will say one has to do to make it big in basketball in Chapter One?
(a) Fly.
(b) Dance.
(c) Rocket.
(d) Have a rich dad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will describe in the first poem of Chapter Two?

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

3. Who is the man on the elevator with Will in Chapter Two?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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”?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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