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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Jane and Karen’s younger brother?
(a) Paul Jerome
(b) Artie Jerome
(c) Peter Jerome
(d) Amos Jerome

2. What is the name of the Avenger’s grandfather?
(a) Louis Kendrick
(b) Vaughn Masterson
(c) Randy Pierce
(d) Marty Sanders

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

4. What is the name of the school that the Avenger attends when he kills the school bully?
(a) Burnside High
(b) Wickburg Regional
(c) Monument High
(d) Lucy Peary Elementary School

5. What kind of grades does the Avenger get most of the time, according to the narrator in Part One?
(a) Mostly F’s
(b) Mostly C’s
(c) Mostly D’s
(d) Mostly A’s

6. What does the Avenger do with the weapon after he’s murdered the school bully in Part One?
(a) He takes it back to where he stole it
(b) He throws it into the river
(c) He places it in the left hand of the victim
(d) He hides it in the bushes behind the house

7. What is the name of Jane and Karen’s mother in the novel?
(a) Marie Jerome
(b) Andrea Jerome
(c) Sarah Jerome
(d) Alice Jerome

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

9. Buddy Walker is described as breaking “the mirror of the girl’s bedroom, using” what, in Part One?
(a) A new baseball bat
(b) The Statue of Liberty
(c) His bare hands
(d) An iron crowbar

10. What is the name of the man who is friends with Jane’s father and the boss of the work crew that repairs the damages to their house in Part One?
(a) Mr. Smith
(b) Mr. Stallings
(c) Mr. Stoddard
(d) Mr. Peacock

11. At what time does Karen Jerome arrive home during the home invasion in the beginning of Part One?
(a) 9:33 p.m.
(b) 9:46 p.m.
(c) 10:02 p.m.
(d) 2:14 a.m.

12. How many rooms comprise the “Cape Cod cottage” that is trashed in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 5 rooms
(b) 7 rooms
(c) 10 rooms
(d) 3 rooms

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

14. What little boy does Jane describe in Part One as being “like a premature middle-aged man. Always a worried look on his face, always carrying one or two library books.”
(a) Vaughn Masterson
(b) Marty Sanders
(c) Randy Pierce
(d) Amos Dalton

15. How old is Karen Jerome in Part One of the novel?
(a) 12
(b) 16
(c) 14
(d) 13

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Buddy and his friends stop to clean up after trashing the Jerome home and attacking Karen in Part One?

2. 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?

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

4. On what date does Mickey tell Jane it will be time to plant the tomatoes in Part One?

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

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