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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are Shawn's main teachers in life?
(a) Special education teachers.
(b) The television, car radio, overheard conversations, and reading.
(c) His parents.
(d) His siblings.

4. In Chapter 12, what is Paul's punishment?
(a) Revocation of driving privileges.
(b) Weeding the rock garden.
(c) No allowance for a week.
(d) Detention.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Earl Detraux doing now?

2. In Chapter 11, what does Paul give Shawn while his mother is not looking?

3. At the end of Chapter 9, what suddenly matters a lot to Shawn?

4. According to the interview of Earl Detraux on the Alice Ponds Show, what does Earl seem to think was significant about Collin's behavior while he was dying?

5. Where does the crow land?

(see the answer key)

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