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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shawn thinks that his father does love him, although he is freaked out by what?
(a) His drooling and head bobbing.
(b) Shawn's condition and seizures.
(c) His inability to control his bowels and bladder.
(d) His inability to talk and respond.

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) Successful.
(b) Wise.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Smart.

3. Faced with the crow, Dad compares Shawn's helplessness to what?
(a) A baby.
(b) A feather.
(c) A bug.
(d) A worm.

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

5. What is the pain that Dad speaks of wanting to end for Shawn?
(a) The pain of muscle spasms.
(b) The pain of knowing a loveless life.
(c) The pain associated with bleeding in the brain.
(d) The pain of grand mal seizures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of prize does his father win?

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

3. What are the two ruffians asking about for when they threaten Shawn?

4. When Shawn's mother has coffee with her friend Connie and they talk about his father leaving, where is Shawn?

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

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