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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two ruffians asking about for when they threaten Shawn?
(a) Money.
(b) Cindy.
(c) The bus.
(d) Drugs.

2. 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?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Wise.
(c) Successful.
(d) Smart.

3. According to the discussion between Shawn's parents the last time that Shawn's father feeds him, who does not believe in God?
(a) Sydney.
(b) Paul.
(c) Lindy.
(d) Cindy.

4. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 12, who or what is dead?
(a) Hope.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Shawn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dad think the crow might do to Shawn?

2. In Chapter 12, Cindy admits to feeling guilty about what?

3. Why is Dad enraged and fearful after the experience with the crow?

4. In Chapter 12, what is Paul's punishment?

5. During the doozy of a seizure that Shawn has during the Alice Ponds Show, what does Shawn experience?

(see the answer key)

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