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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Shawn's birth order?
(a) Youngest.
(b) Oldest.
(c) Middle child.
(d) Oldest Boy.

2. How does Shawn's father talk to him?
(a) He does not talk to Shawn directly.
(b) He talks to him in an age-appropriate way, but then laughs as though at a joke.
(c) He speaks in baby-talk.
(d) He shouts as though Shawn is deaf.

3. During the premiere reading of the poem, where is Shawn sitting?
(a) Next to his father.
(b) Next to his mother.
(c) In the living room.
(d) In the kitchen.

4. Where does the crow land?
(a) On the telephone line in the alley behind the house.
(b) On the rear-view mirror on his father's car.
(c) On Shawn's spare wheelchair.
(d) On the railing under the overhanging branches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shawn's good news?

2. What does Mom say to Cindy when she gets back in the van?

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

4. What do Shawn's eyes tend to focus on?

5. Chapter 1 is written from what point of view ?

(see the answer key)

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