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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. After seeing Jane and Buddy kissing together in a store, the Avenger vows to do what?
(a) Tell Jane about Buddy
(b) Kill Jane
(c) Tell Jane’s mother
(d) Tell Karen

2. Buddy’s mother tells him and his sister that she’s planning on taking a retreat at a monastery just south of what town?
(a) Worcester
(b) Boston
(c) Mt. Shasta
(d) Los Angeles

3. What is the last feeling that Jane has for Buddy as she ascends the escalator at the mall, leaving him behind in the end of Part Two?
(a) Rage
(b) Jealousy
(c) Longing
(d) Pity

4. How old is Amos Dalton described as being on the newscast as Buddy watches in Part Two?
(a) 13
(b) 10
(c) 16
(d) 12

5. When the Avenger first sees Jane and Buddy together, he is standing on Main Street in front of what store in Part Two?
(a) Dupont’s Drug Store
(b) Peterson’s Drug Store
(c) Wickburg Fashions
(d) Jackson Dry Cleaners

Short Answer Questions

1. What are described in the end of Part Two as Jane’s “only moments of light and gladness—not gladness exactly but absence of sadness, perhaps”?

2. What color are Jane’s eyes described as in the novel?

3. Buddy considers going to the Mall to surprise Jane and her mother and buy them coffee where in Part Two?

4. What word from Part Two means moved to showing sudden emotion or irritation, especially over a trifling annoyance?

5. Where has Jane agreed to meet her mother at the mall when she accidentally runs into Buddy at the end of Part Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the second and third examples in the novel of a character “falling down”?

2. Where does the Avenger first spy Buddy and Jane together in Part Two? What is his response?

3. What revelation does the Avenger reveal to Jane as she is entrapped in Part Two? How does Jane respond?

4. How is the family life of Harry Flowers characterized in We All Fall Down?

5. What justifications does the author make for Buddy Walker’s behavior in the novel?

6. How does the Avenger kill himself in Part Two? Why does he kill himself?

7. Who calls Jane to plead with her regarding Buddy in Part Two? What information is revealed in this phone call?

8. When and where does Jane encounter Buddy after their breakup in Part Two? How have Jane’s feelings changed at this point?

9. How is the Jerome family characterized in the novel? How does this family unit differ from others presented in the story?

10. Where does Buddy meet his father in Part Two? What are Buddy’s impressions of his dad at this meeting?

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