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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 8, what is the main question being asked?
(a) How long must we wait?
(b) What is wrong?
(c) Who is in there?
(d) Why is this happening?

2. What happens when Shawn awakens from a seizure?
(a) He has a crackling feeling.
(b) He sees red swirls.
(c) His spirit is forced back inside his body.
(d) He sees light blue swirls.

3. How does Shawn interact with his father while having an out-of-body experience?
(a) Shawn yells in his ear.
(b) Shawn kisses him on the cheek.
(c) Shawn touches his hand and thanks him.
(d) Shawn sits next to him at the beach.

4. What can really bum out Shawn sometimes?
(a) Being unable to communicate.
(b) Thinking about how his condition affects his family.
(c) Being talked to like a newborn baby.
(d) Feeling sorry for himself.

5. 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) Bends his thumbs backward.
(d) Makes Shawn sit up straighter in his wheelchair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Shawn the first few times that his spirit leaves his body?

2. When Shawn has an "autonomic, uncontrollable systemic reflex" during a seizure, what is Shawn doing?

3. In the dream about Ally, where are Ally and Shawn sitting?

4. When Shawn's mother has coffee with her friend Connie and they talk about his father leaving, where is Shawn?

5. What do Cindy's friends do in front of Shawn that he sees as a "silver lining?"

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