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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how long has the Jerome family lived in the town they currently live in, according to the narrator in the beginning of Part One?
(a) 6 months
(b) 6 weeks
(c) 1 year
(d) 2 years

2. When Karen goes flying into the cellar, Buddy recalls his father having hit whom once in his car when Buddy was a child?
(a) A young baby
(b) An old woman
(c) An old man
(d) A young woman

3. The damage estimated on the home that is invaded in the opening of the novel is how much?
(a) $15,000
(b) $30,000
(c) $20,000
(d) $10,000

4. What is Jane’s favorite color, and the color that her room had been painted prior to the home invasion?
(a) Yellow
(b) Pink
(c) Blue
(d) Red

5. Where is Buddy when Harry Flowers first talks to him and tells him “You need action” in Part One?
(a) At the First Congregational Church
(b) At Wickburg Regional
(c) At Jedson Park
(d) At the Mall

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Part One, “The first time he saw Randy and Marty together, Buddy flashed back to an old movie on television.” What was the movie?

2. Who appears to be in the process of raping Karen Jerome when Buddy comes downstairs in Part One?

3. What is Mickey Stalling’s position in the neighborhood where Jane’s family lives in the novel?

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

5. Who is the little boy that the Avenger watches the school bully torture every day, “tripping him, pulling his shirt out of his pants, tweaking his cheeks”?

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