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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Shawn's main teachers in life?
(a) Special education teachers.
(b) His parents.
(c) The television, car radio, overheard conversations, and reading.
(d) His siblings.

2. What are the two ruffians asking about for when they threaten Shawn?
(a) Cindy.
(b) Money.
(c) The bus.
(d) Drugs.

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

4. Shawn especially enjoys interacting with Becky when she places him where every day?
(a) Back in his wheelchair.
(b) On the beanbag chair.
(c) On the large, mysteriously stained couch.
(d) In the standing contraption.

5. According to Shawn in Chapter 7, how does the "proven scientific method for judging such things" classify Shawn?
(a) As a disabled person with cerebral palsy.
(b) As a brain-injured person with cerebral palsy.
(c) As an idiot, moron, or celery stalk.
(d) As a handicapped person with a brain disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shawn do at the Pacific Science Center when he is eight?

2. What kind of perfume does Shawn remember his mother wearing?

3. Why does Shawn get confused about some aspects and experiences of life?

4. In Chapter 12, what is Paul's punishment?

5. What item is not in Shawn's father's bedroom?

(see the answer key)

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