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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Shawn glad that Ally leaves before he got up?
(a) Because no guests means uninterrupted one-on-one time with his mother.
(b) So he can remember how she appears in his dream.
(c) Because he knows that the sooner she leaves the sooner she will return.
(d) So she will not see him eating breakfast.

2. Why does Shawn mention women in a Maxfield Parrish painting?
(a) Ally resembles one of those women.
(b) It is his favorite painting.
(c) It is a bad omen that the painting fell off the wall in his mother's room.
(d) The painting is visible to him when he lies in bed.

3. What sensory experiences does Shawn remember as they drive away from the scene of the accident?
(a) The feeling of the damp breeze and the sound of rain.
(b) The squeak of windshield wipers and the smell of burned oil and mud.
(c) The feeling of leather straps and dampness, and the sound of rain.
(d) The feeling of shock and fear.

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

5. What is Shawn's bed like at home?
(a) A steel crib.
(b) A toddler bed in the shape of a race car.
(c) An oversized crib.
(d) An electric hospital bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most notable difference between Shawn's father and Earl Detraux?

2. What is newsworthy about Collin?

3. What is cerebral palsy?

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

5. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 11, what is the overriding image or message?

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