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Why is the title of the book "Long Way Down"

• It's an elevator ride, going down

• The story takes place down South

• People are shot (man down)

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Why does Dani try to dissuade Will from taking revenge?

• Because he will be caught and go to jail

• Because he may miss his target and hit someone else

• Because someone will steal the gun and shoot Will

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Why is Dani worried that Will may miss his target?

• Will failed handgun class

• Dani killed someone else when she was aiming at an assailant.

• Dani died because someone missed his target and shot her by mistake.

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As Will is trying to leave the building to take revenge, _______ begin to board the elevator he is taking, with one getting on at every stop going down.

• gangsters

• children

• ghosts

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Why might feel=flee in the anagram Will writes?

• Will tries to escape his feelings by fleeing from them, or ignoring them.

• Feeling things is an irritant like a flea on the skin

• Will feels like he should flee from the playground where Dani was shot.

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Besides the pain of having a tooth yanked out of his mouth, in what other way does this comparison describe the loss of Shawn?

• The pale white of death like a bone

• He can feel the gaping hole Shawn's death left behind all the time

• There were a string of deaths like a row of teeth

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Who did not get on the elevator?

• Will's father

• Buck

• Will's school teacher

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Why does Will's dad get on the elevator after Uncle Mark does?

• Will's dad was killed for killing the man who killed his brother.

• They were together every day in the afterlife.

• He wants all three family males to get together.

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Why does Uncle Mark sell drugs?

• To provide for Will and Shawn

• To buy a new camera for himself

• Because he was pressured to join the gang

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Why do Uncle Mark and Will's father look at Will with "guilt and grief"?

• Because they died without being able to take revenge

• Because Will's dad took revenge on the wrong man

• Because they can't take revenge on Shawn's killer

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