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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Shawn say that he loves his seizures?
(a) He is being sarcastic.
(b) They are reality.
(c) They made him famous.
(d) They do not hurt.

3. What does Shawn consider the bad part of his seizures?
(a) The paralysis.
(b) The loss of bladder and bowel control.
(c) The loss of consciousness.
(d) The muscle contractions.

4. Who is Cindy?
(a) Shawn's younger sister.
(b) Shawn's older sister.
(c) Shawn's cousin.
(d) Shawn's middle sister.

5. At the premiere reading of the poem, who is referred to as "Bing-Bong"?
(a) A fictitious character in the poem.
(b) The woman with the huge breasts.
(c) Shawn.
(d) The first speaker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Shawn when his father feeds him for the last time?

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

4. In Chapter 8, Shawn says that his father's books, poems, newspaper and magazine articles and his job teaching literature at college always made him think of his father as what?

5. According to the conversation that Lindy has with her friend Connie, what aspect of Shawn's condition bothers Sydney the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. Despite his irritation at the world premiere reading of the poem, what things does Shawn like about the poem?

2. How does seeing the death of the dog make Shawn feel?

3. What does Lindy say to her friend Connie about her feelings toward Sydney's abandonment of the family?

4. How does Sydney McDaniel support his argument that schools waste money educating the ineducable?

5. How does Shawn learn to read?

6. How much control does Shawn have over his seizures?

7. How does Shawn describe the tests administered by the school psychologist?

8. What does Shawn's father throw at the crow, and does he hit or miss its target?

9. Describe what the special education class at Shoreline High School is like according to Shawn, and how the students behave.

10. How does Shawn's special gift progress and strengthen?

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