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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of liquor is Buddy drinking in his father’s garage in Part One?
(a) Seagram’s Gin
(b) Jack Daniels Whiskey
(c) Malibu Rum
(d) Crown Whiskey

2. What is the Avenger’s primary mode of transportation in Part One?
(a) A car
(b) A bike
(c) Bus
(d) Taxi

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

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 rabbit
(b) A squirrel
(c) A bird
(d) A turtle

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Avenger’s mother in the novel?

2. What kind of grades does the Avenger get most of the time, according to the narrator in Part One?

3. Who was the pastor at Jane’s old Methodist church in Monument, according to the narrator in Part One?

4. Marty’s suede flight jacket is said to be worth how much money in Part One?

5. What doctor do Artie’s parents take him to when his night terrors begin in Part One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first example of a character “falling down” in the novel?

2. How does the Avenger cover up the murder of Vaughn Masterson?

3. What is significant about the setting of We All Fall Down in relation to the central topics addressed in the novel?

4. How does the relationship between Buddy Walker and Jane Jerome begin in Part Two?

5. How is Buddy Walker’s descent into alcoholism described in Part One? What led Buddy to begin drinking?

6. What happens when Buddy’s sister confronts him about his drinking in Part One?

7. When, precisely, do the vandals break into the Jerome home in the beginning of Part One? Who encounters them as they are vandalizing the house?

8. What are the central questions that arise in the plot of We All Fall Down? How do these questions relate to the novel’s themes?

9. How did Harry Flowers obtain the key to the Jerome household, as revealed in Part Two?

10. How and why does the Avenger go about killing Vaughn Masterson?

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