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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Shawn's bad news?
(a) He is a total "retardate."
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Being born changed life for the whole family.
(d) His parents got divorced because of him.

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

3. Chapter 1 is written from what point of view ?
(a) Shawn's.
(b) Omniscient.
(c) Third person.
(d) The psychologist's.

4. How much money does Sydney McDaniel claim it takes to educate each ineducable child in Seattle?
(a) Thirty-five thousand dollars per year per child.
(b) Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
(c) Twenty-five thousand dollars per year per child.
(d) A million dollars per decade.

5. When Sydney becomes famous for the poem, what famous person does he meet?
(a) The governor.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The pope.
(d) The Dalai Llama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase is confusing to Shawn at first because of his lack of experience?

2. What control does Shawn have over his body?

3. How long ago was the premiere reading of the poem that was written about Shawn?

4. Where does the crow land?

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

(see the answer key)

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