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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shawn's father always do to Shawn when he comes to visit?
(a) Reads the first stanza of the award-winning poem.
(b) Brings a vanilla cookie.
(c) Makes Shawn sit up straighter in his wheelchair.
(d) Bends his thumbs backward.

2. In Chapter 8, what do the doctors say is "almost impossible?"
(a) That Shawn is aware.
(b) That Shawn will recover.
(c) That Shawn's IQ will change.
(d) That Shawn will be cured of seizures.

3. Cindy says something on the Alice Ponds Show that Paul calls "classic." What does she say?
(a) Do I know you?
(b) Which brother?
(c) I'd be lost without him.
(d) I go there often.

4. When Shawn's mother has coffee with her friend Connie and they talk about his father leaving, where is Shawn?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the dining room.
(c) At school.
(d) At the window overlooking Puget Sound.

5. Where is Shawn the week before his father comes by the house?
(a) Shawn is in the living room.
(b) Shawn is on the back deck of the house.
(c) Shawn is in the television room.
(d) Shawn is in the backyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the fight, who tells the strangers that they need to leave the yard?

2. In Chapter 8, what idea is more confusing to Shawn because he knows that his father loves him?

3. Why is Dad enraged and fearful after the experience with the crow?

4. Shawn thinks that his father does love him, although he is freaked out by what?

5. According to the discussion between Shawn's parents the last time that Shawn's father feeds him, who does not believe in God?

(see the answer key)

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