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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 do Harry and his gang blow up outside of Wickburg with Harry’s fireworks in Part One?
(a) Mailboxes
(b) Sheds
(c) Billboards
(d) Cows

2. What is the label that Harry Flowers gives for the exploits of his gang in Part One?
(a) Danger Time
(b) Vengeance
(c) Wild Time
(d) Funtime

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

4. What boy does the narrator say Leslie is “pink about” in Part One?
(a) Mickey Stallings
(b) Vaughn Masterson
(c) Amos Dalton
(d) Johnny Taylor

5. Which of Jane Jerome’s friends is described as “a giggler” in Part One?
(a) Jennifer Smith
(b) Leslie Cairns
(c) Karen Wilson
(d) Patti Amarelli

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator states in the beginning of Part One that the Avenger “did not know [the home invaders’] names, had never seen them before, but he knew who they were. They were regular kids, not sleazies from” where?

3. When Karen goes flying into the cellar, Buddy recalls his father having hit whom once in his car when Buddy was a child?

4. How does the narrator describe Buddy’s mother in Part One?

5. Jane describes her house and the street it is on as something like you might see in what old television show in Part One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Mr. Jerome relate to the police detective after the vandalism in Part One?

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

3. What news does Buddy receive when he arrives at school in the opening of Part Two?

4. What happens when Karen Jerome flees from her attackers during the break-in in Part One?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. Where does the Avenger spend much of his time trying to track down the vandals who destroyed the Jerome home in Part One? What impression does he have when he encounters Jane Jerome here?

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