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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shawn, Cindy, and Paul all know what when it comes to their father?
(a) No one can protect Shawn from him.
(b) He is too cowardly to ever hurt Shawn.
(c) Paul is stronger then his father, so Shawn is safe.
(d) Their father is absent much of the time so there is little motivation for him to kill Shawn.

3. What does Dad think the crow might do to Shawn?
(a) Give him lice.
(b) Leave droppings on his clothes.
(c) Infect him with disease.
(d) Peck his eyes out.

4. What does Shawn's father always do to Shawn when he comes to visit?
(a) Makes Shawn sit up straighter in his wheelchair.
(b) Bends his thumbs backward.
(c) Brings a vanilla cookie.
(d) Reads the first stanza of the award-winning poem.

5. According to Shawn in Chapter 8, when does his father seem to feel the closest to Shawn?
(a) When sitting quietly next to Shawn in the sun.
(b) During his siezures.
(c) During the reading of the award-winning poem.
(d) When his father laughs after performing the little "ritual."

Short Answer Questions

1. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 12, who or what is dead?

2. What do the ruffians do to Shawn?

3. Where does the crow land?

4. After the fight, who tells the strangers that they need to leave the yard?

5. In Chapter 12, while Shawn is outside on the front porch, what is the origin of the strong smell of fumes?

(see the answer key)

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