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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Shawn's parents explain to their friends "a trillion times?"
(a) About Shawn's test scores.
(b) About Shawn's I.Q.
(c) Something that is "stupid."
(d) Something about Shawn that is only partially true.

2. What does Dad think the crow might do to Shawn?
(a) Peck his eyes out.
(b) Leave droppings on his clothes.
(c) Infect him with disease.
(d) Give him lice.

3. What word or concept is confusing to Shawn until he sees it written out?
(a) Lighter.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Bow legged.
(d) Euthanasia.

4. How old is Shawn when his gift first starts?
(a) Nine or ten.
(b) Five or six.
(c) Three or Four.
(d) Six or seven

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Faced with the crow, Dad compares Shawn's helplessness to what?

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

3. Where is Shawn the week before his father comes by the house?

4. Why does the school district send out a school psychologist each year?

5. Shawn thinks that his father does love him, although he is freaked out by what?

(see the answer key)

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