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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Shawn's birth order?
(a) Youngest.
(b) Oldest.
(c) Oldest Boy.
(d) Middle child.

2. What does Shawn think about the city in which he lives?
(a) It's cool beyond belief.
(b) It's too rainy.
(c) It's not sunny enough.
(d) It's wild to live near so many sports teams.

3. Why is Shawn glad that Ally leaves before he got up?
(a) Because he knows that the sooner she leaves the sooner she will return.
(b) Because no guests means uninterrupted one-on-one time with his mother.
(c) So he can remember how she appears in his dream.
(d) So she will not see him eating breakfast.

4. In Shawn's opinion, the fame of the poem turned his father into a professional what?
(a) Victim.
(b) Philanthropist.
(c) Writer.
(d) Talk show guest.

5. What do Shawn's eyes tend to focus on?
(a) A smudge on the wall.
(b) Nothing in particular.
(c) Books left open.
(d) What's visible through a window.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Shawn's father talk to him?

2. In the stanza of the poem at the beginning of Chapter 7, Shawn's expression is described as what?

3. What does Cindy call Earl Detraux?

4. How does Shawn interact with his mother while having an out-of-body experience?

5. What type of audience does The Alice Ponds Show attract?

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