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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 kind of perfume does Shawn remember his mother wearing?
(a) Joy.
(b) Opium.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Chanel No. 5.

2. What do the ruffians do to Shawn?
(a) They dump him out of his wheelchair.
(b) They stab the tires of his wheelchair.
(c) They squirt him with a hose.
(d) They burn him.

3. Why does Shawn mention women in a Maxfield Parrish painting?
(a) It is his favorite painting.
(b) Ally resembles one of those women.
(c) The painting is visible to him when he lies in bed.
(d) It is a bad omen that the painting fell off the wall in his mother's room.

4. Which of the following comments does Shawn's father NOT make to Shawn in the angel dream?
(a) I lost you.
(b) I left you.
(c) I need you to know...
(d) You're gone.

5. The peace usually lasts how long between Paul and his father?
(a) No longer than spring training.
(b) Until his father starts a new project.
(c) No more than a few days.
(d) No more than a few months.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Shawn in Chapter 10, what does it mean when his mother sounds overly positive?

2. In Chapter 12, what is Paul being punished for?

3. In Shawn's memory of Christmas when he is six years old, what are Cindy and Paul doing?

4. What shocks Shawn while he is dreaming about the angels?

5. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 10, what has become a "meringue of dust"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Paul and Shawn's mother have opposite views about Sydney, Shawn's father. Who does Shawn agree with and what is his opinion of his father?

2. Which characters are going to Spokane in chapter 13 and why is it significant that they are going?

3. What does Shawn try to tell his father over and over again in Chapter 16, and why?

4. What is the Annie-Sullivan-meeting-Helen Keller-in-The Miracle-Worker routine and what does Shawn think about it?

5. Paul and Cindy discuss their father's appearance on The Alice Ponds Show. What do they think about what their father says on the show?

6. How does Shawn react to meeting his sister's friend Ally, and why?

7. If Shawn has never been to his father's house, does Shawn have an accurate knowledge of what his father's bedroom looks like, and if so, how does he know?

8. On The Alice Ponds Show, what is Alice Ponds' goal while interviewing Sydney McDaniel.

9. In Chapter 14, Shawn dreams that his father sees angels. What is the significance of the angels?

10. What is in Shawn's father's bedroom that is reminiscent of the virtual ride through the cosmos at the science center and why is this significant?

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