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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shawn thinks that his father does love him, although he is freaked out by what?
(a) Shawn's condition and seizures.
(b) His inability to talk and respond.
(c) His inability to control his bowels and bladder.
(d) His drooling and head bobbing.

3. What happens during the commercial after the interview of Earl Detraux on the Alice Ponds Show?
(a) Shawn has a seizure.
(b) The family room is silent.
(c) A bird files into the closed family room window.
(d) The electricity goes off.

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

5. Shawn especially enjoys interacting with Becky when she places him where every day?
(a) Back in his wheelchair.
(b) In the standing contraption.
(c) On the large, mysteriously stained couch.
(d) On the beanbag chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Shawn think that he understood what death looked like before the dog died?

2. Who teaches Shawn to read?

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

4. What is Shawn's birth order?

5. How old is Shawn when his gift first starts?

(see the answer key)

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