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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Dad enraged and fearful after the experience with the crow?
(a) Because the crow may induce a seizure in Shawn.
(b) Because it is humiliating to have to be afraid of a crow.
(c) Because his ex-wife left Shawn alone with him.
(d) Because he realizes that Shawn is helpless and impossible to protect.

2. How does Shawn's father talk to him?
(a) He speaks in baby-talk.
(b) He does not talk to Shawn directly.
(c) He talks to him in an age-appropriate way, but then laughs as though at a joke.
(d) He shouts as though Shawn is deaf.

3. Why did Shawn think that he understood what death looked like before the dog died?
(a) He had read books in which people died and he has a good imagination.
(b) He had seen people "die" on television.
(c) Because his hospital roommate died when he was seven.
(d) Because he heard his mother describe he death of a relative.

4. What can be frustrating to Shawn?
(a) His reflexes.
(b) Being talked to like a newborn baby.
(c) That he is pretty sure his father is planning to kill him.
(d) Being trapped inside a useless body.

5. What does Dad throw at the crow?
(a) A bucket of ice cubes.
(b) A glass of iced tea.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A paperback book.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many talk shows does Sydney appear on because of the poem?

2. What does the crow do that startles Shawn and his father?

3. What are Shawn's main teachers in life?

4. What does Shawn hear as they first drive off in the van after the accident?

5. What can really bum out Shawn sometimes?

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