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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Buddy’s little sister in Part One?
(a) 17
(b) 16
(c) 15
(d) 12

2. How old was Buddy’s sister when she fell from a tree and broke her arm?
(a) 10
(b) 9
(c) 8
(d) 5

3. What is the name of the high school that Jane attends in the novel?
(a) Petersville High
(b) McKinley High
(c) Landside High
(d) Burnside High

4. What kind of dead animal does Mr. Jerome describe having found in his mailbox in the past year when he’s speaking to the police detective after the vandalism in Part One?
(a) A bird
(b) A rabbit
(c) A squirrel
(d) A turtle

5. How old is Jane Jerome in the beginning of We All Fall Down?
(a) 16
(b) 14
(c) 15
(d) 17

6. To what city do Artie’s parents take him to see a doctor when his night terrors begin in Part One?
(a) Springfield
(b) Oakland
(c) Monument
(d) Boston

7. What does Jane tell her friends people call Mickey Stallings behind his back in Part One?
(a) Old Man Stallings
(b) Mickey Looney
(c) The Avenger
(d) Goofy the Dog

8. What are the names of the girls that Jane has befriended since she’s transferred to her new school?
(a) Sarah Gilliam and Rachel Duncan
(b) Karen Smith and Betty Masters
(c) Felicia Gray and Jessica Peters
(d) Patti Amarelli and Leslie Cairns

9. What is one of the few things that the home invaders did not break in the Jerome home, according to Jane in Part One?
(a) Windows
(b) Bottles
(c) Glasses
(d) Mirrors

10. How much weekly allowance does Buddy receive from his mother after his father has left the household in Part One?
(a) $25
(b) $15
(c) $10
(d) $5

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

12. How old is the Avenger described from his perspective in Part One?
(a) 13
(b) 14
(c) 11
(d) 16

13. When the death of the school bully that the Avenger killed is reported in the paper, it is reported how?
(a) As an accident
(b) As a suicide
(c) As a murder
(d) As a negligent homicide

14. Jane describes her house and the street it is on as something like you might see in what old television show in Part One?
(a) Leave it to Beaver
(b) The Brady Bunch
(c) The Brat Pack
(d) Lassie

15. 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”?
(a) Crips
(b) Bloods
(c) Boyz
(d) Dogs

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of We All Fall Down comes from what literary allusion in the novel?

2. What is Buddy’s little sister’s name in the novel?

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

4. The narrator says in Part One, “Artie’s screaming began” how long “after the vandalism”?

5. On what holiday does the narrator describe the home invasion taking place in the beginning of Part One?

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