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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what floor of the high-rise for the elderly does the Avenger’s grandfather live on in the novel?
(a) The tenth floor
(b) The fifth floor
(c) The fourth floor
(d) The third floor

2. The narrator describes Mr. Jerome as serving on the committee for what charitable organization every year in Part One?
(a) The Salvation Army
(b) The Red Cross
(c) The Blue Cross
(d) The United Way

3. When the death of the school bully that the Avenger killed is reported in the paper, it is noted that the weapon was stolen from whose apartment a month earlier?
(a) Marty Sanders’s
(b) Louis Kendrick’s
(c) Randy Pierce’s
(d) Mickey Stallings’s

4. What is the name of the Avenger’s mother in the novel?
(a) Mary
(b) Diane
(c) Sarah
(d) Ella

5. What is the name of the Avenger’s father in the novel?
(a) Peter
(b) William
(c) Donnie
(d) Andrew

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman that Buddy’s father has been having an affair with, according to Buddy’s sister in Part One?

2. What position does Mr. Jerome have at the telephone company where he works in Part One?

3. What boy does the narrator say Leslie is “pink about” in Part One?

4. Of the Avenger, the narrator says in Part One, “He was good at planning. His mother called it” what?

5. What does Harry constantly call his friends after the vandalism and attack as they leave the Jerome home that Buddy considers to be Harry’s “black talk”?

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