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

2. What kind of prize does his father win?
(a) Newberry.
(b) Nobel.
(c) Pulitzer.
(d) Emmy.

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

4. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 8, what is the main question being asked?
(a) What is wrong?
(b) Who is in there?
(c) How long must we wait?
(d) Why is this happening?

5. Why does Shawn say that he doesn't really have a body?
(a) Because his life has always just been in his head.
(b) Because he has never been able to see what he looks like.
(c) Because he has cerebral palsy.
(d) Because his body doesn't work right.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times has Shawn's father said his name aloud in his presence?

2. In Chapter 8, what idea is more confusing to Shawn because he knows that his father loves him?

3. Who is Paul?

4. How does Mom try to comfort Cindy about the dog?

5. From what does the seizure medicine protect Shawn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Shawn describe his father?

3. How does Shawn describe his experience with grand mal seizures as a child?

4. During his last feeding of Shawn, Sydney tells Lindy that he is mad at something other than at Shawn. What is he mad at?

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

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

7. How does Shawn describe the first signs that he will have a seizure?

8. According to Shawn, who is the Shawn in the poem written by his father?

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

10. What "techniques of making contact" does Shawn mention have not been tried on him?

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