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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shawn say interferes with his ability to secure a close, intimate relationship with a girl?
(a) Inability to control his voluntary muscles.
(b) Incontinence.
(c) Inability to control his involuntary muscles.
(d) Inability to communicate.

2. What can really bum out Shawn sometimes?
(a) Feeling sorry for himself.
(b) Being talked to like a newborn baby.
(c) Being unable to communicate.
(d) Thinking about how his condition affects his family.

3. What does Shawn do at the end of the dream about Ally?
(a) Smile the biggest smile ever.
(b) Begin to cry.
(c) Soar off into the universe holding Ally by the hand.
(d) Walk off into the sunset with Ally.

4. What can be frustrating to Shawn?
(a) That he is pretty sure his father is planning to kill him.
(b) His reflexes.
(c) Being talked to like a newborn baby.
(d) Being trapped inside a useless body.

5. What kind of prize does his father win?
(a) Pulitzer.
(b) Newberry.
(c) Nobel.
(d) Emmy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word or concept is confusing to Shawn until he sees it written out?

2. Where does the crow land?

3. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 9, what is the ghost bird replacing?

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?

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

(see the answer key)

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