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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. Where do Buddy and Jane occasionally meet to do their homework together once they’ve started dating in Part Two?
(a) Monument Public Library
(b) Burnside Public Library
(c) Burnside High
(d) Monument High

2. When Jane invites Buddy to come to her house and she confronts him about the trashing in Part Two, what word stands out to him because “she never swore”?
(a) Damn
(b) Bitch
(c) Hell
(d) Piss

3. The narrator says that at exactly what time does Buddy fall “instantly and irrevocably in love with Jane Jerome” in Part Two?
(a) 2:46 p.m.
(b) 5:34 p.m.
(c) 6:23 p.m.
(d) 7:12 p.m.

4. How old is Jane’s abductor described as being on the newscast that Buddy watches in Part Two?
(a) 16
(b) 41
(c) 11
(d) 25

5. What is Jane tied to the chair with when she awakens in Part Two?
(a) A scarf
(b) A seatbelt
(c) Clothesline rope
(d) Fishing line

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does the Avenger present and torment Jane with in Part Two?

2. Amos Dalton leads Jane to an overgrown lot that has a sign reading what in Part Two?

3. When Karen awakes from her coma, she is in relatively good condition with what exception?

4. Buddy’s parents brought Buddy and his sister up in what religion?

5. What boy does Jane recall having had a crush on “who played the lead in the school’s abbreviated version of Grease” in Part Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the concept of motivation tie into the themes seen in Part One of We All Fall Down?

3. How does the author characterize the relationship between Buddy and Jane prior to their breakup in the novel?

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

5. What does Mr. Jerome represent symbolically in We All Fall Down?

6. How does the author delineate the strengths and weaknesses of his characters in We All Fall Down?

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

8. How are the characters of Randy and Marty depicted in We All Fall Down? How do these characters differ from Buddy Walker?

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

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

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