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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 had also happened that day in the picture as told in Chapter Three?
(a) Gunshots had rang out, and Shawn had pushed them down, but Dani was shot.
(b) Gunshots had rang out, and Shawn had pushed them down.
(c) They had been pushed off of the playground by rival kids.
(d) Gunshots had rang out, and Uncle Mark was killed.

2. Who steps onto the elevator in Chapter Three?
(a) Buck.
(b) Uncle Mark.
(c) A girl wearing a flower dress, low heels, and perfume.
(d) Will's dad.

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

4. Why does Will feels silly telling Buck that Shawn is dead in Chapter Two?
(a) Because he figures that Buck already knows, since Buck is dead too.
(b) Because he does not want to talk about it.
(c) Because Buck and Shawn have been hanging out above.
(d) Because Shawn is alongside Buck.

5. What does Dani ask Will about his plan in Chapter Three?
(a) What will happen if Will misses.
(b) If he can find some other way to resolve this pain.
(c) If he wants to go to jail.
(d) If he has really thought this through.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will think when the girl says she knows him in Chapter Three?

2. What does Buck tell Will about giving the gun to Shawn in Chapter Two?

3. What does Will say it feels like sometimes when he thinks about Dani’s death in Chapter Three?

4. Why does Will tell the girl in the elevator in Chapter Three that she should not be asking him about the gun?

5. What does Will know is in Shawn’s corner-store bag in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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