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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 consider the bad part of his seizures?
(a) The loss of consciousness.
(b) The loss of bladder and bowel control.
(c) The paralysis.
(d) The muscle contractions.

2. What do Shawn's eyes tend to focus on?
(a) Books left open.
(b) What's visible through a window.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) A smudge on the wall.

3. 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) Philosophical.
(c) Smart.
(d) Successful.

4. What does Shawn try not to do too much?
(a) Complain about his reflexes.
(b) Think about what his mother says about him to others.
(c) Complain to himself.
(d) Think about being stuck at home.

5. When Shawn describes his seizures in great detail, according to him what is it about his seizures that is especially irritating to his family?
(a) His uncontrollable drooling.
(b) The unpredictablility of the timing of the seizures.
(c) His uncontrollable laughter.
(d) The spasms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the pain that Dad speaks of wanting to end for Shawn?

2. How does Shawn interact with Cindy while having an out-of-body experience?

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

4. Shawn values the experience of having seizures so much that he would trade what in order to continue having seizures?

5. What can really bum out Shawn sometimes?

(see the answer key)

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