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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Shawn's gift?
(a) Acute hearing.
(b) The ability to "see" music.
(c) Perfect pitch.
(d) Total recall of everything he hears.

2. What shocks Shawn while he is dreaming about the angels?
(a) That he and his father are actually talking.
(b) That his father thinks he is an angel.
(c) That he can hear his own voice.
(d) That his father sees him.

3. During the premiere reading of the poem, where is Shawn sitting?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) Next to his father.
(c) In the living room.
(d) Next to his mother.

4. Chapter 1 is written from what point of view ?
(a) The psychologist's.
(b) Shawn's.
(c) Third person.
(d) Omniscient.

5. What does Cindy call Earl Detraux?
(a) A selfish, self centered creep.
(b) A monster.
(c) A mad scientist.
(d) A crazed publicity seeker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shawn especially enjoys interacting with Becky when she places him where every day?

2. Why does Shawn mention women in a Maxfield Parrish painting?

3. What does Shawn consider the bad part of his seizures?

4. In Chapter 12, Cindy admits to feeling guilty about what?

5. In Chapter 14, who refers to Shawn as "baby boy"?

(see the answer key)

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