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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of the Avenger, the narrator says in Part One, “He was good at planning. His mother called it” what?
(a) Organization
(b) Being studious
(c) Being lazy
(d) Daydreaming

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

4. The title of We All Fall Down comes from what literary allusion in the novel?
(a) Ring Around the Rosy
(b) The Raven
(c) Days of Our Lives
(d) Humpty Dumpty

5. What little boy from two doors down from Jane’s house is described as specializing in “riding his bike helter-skelter on the sidewalk” in Part One?
(a) Vaughn Masterson
(b) Randy Pierce
(c) Mickey Stallings
(d) Mikey Bryan

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. What color do the home invaders spray-paint the walls in the home in the beginning of Part One?

4. What is the name of Jane and Karen’s mother in the novel?

5. From whom had the Avenger stolen the weapon that he uses to murder the school bully in Part One?

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