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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How long ago was the premiere reading of the poem that was written about Shawn?
(a) Five years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Two years.

4. Why is Dad enraged and fearful after the experience with the crow?
(a) Because he realizes that Shawn is helpless and impossible to protect.
(b) Because the crow may induce a seizure in Shawn.
(c) Because it is humiliating to have to be afraid of a crow.
(d) Because his ex-wife left Shawn alone with him.

5. Faced with the crow, Dad compares Shawn's helplessness to what?
(a) A bug.
(b) A feather.
(c) A baby.
(d) A worm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shawn's gift?

2. Why did Shawn think that he understood what death looked like before the dog died?

3. What are Shawn's main teachers in life?

4. What does Shawn think about death?

5. Who teaches Shawn to read?

(see the answer key)

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