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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When does Paul realize what he is doing with the lighter?
(a) When their mother opens the back door.
(b) When Shawn goes into a seizure.
(c) When Cindy screams in his face.
(d) When the lighter fails to ignite.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Shawn thinks that his father does love him, although he is freaked out by what?

4. What does the crow do that startles Shawn and his father?

5. Faced with the crow, Dad compares Shawn's helplessness to what?

(see the answer key)

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