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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) When his father laughs after performing the little "ritual."
(c) During his siezures.
(d) During the reading of the award-winning poem.

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) Lindy.
(b) Sydney.
(c) Paul.
(d) Cindy.

4. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 8, what is the main question being asked?
(a) What is wrong?
(b) How long must we wait?
(c) Who is in there?
(d) Why is this happening?

5. How does Shawn's mother describe Sydney to Connie?
(a) As a prize-winning journalist narcissist.
(b) As a literary genius who has issues.
(c) As cowardly and weak.
(d) As a wonderful teacher without patience.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of prize does his father win?

3. In Chapter 8, what idea is more confusing to Shawn because he knows that his father loves him?

4. Cindy says something on the Alice Ponds Show that Paul calls "classic." What does she say?

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

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