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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far away from Cindy and her friends is Shawn usually sitting before he is put to bed?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Close enough to hear all but whispered secrets.
(c) One room away.
(d) Fifteen feet away.

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

3. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 9, what is the ghost bird replacing?
(a) Healing.
(b) Joy.
(c) A heart.
(d) A real bird.

4. In the stanza of the poem at the beginning of Chapter 7, Shawn's expression is described as what?
(a) Blank.
(b) Overcooked.
(c) The same.
(d) Deadly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While making the PBS Special at Shawn's classroom, Sydney McDaniel claims that people will not place ineducable children where?

2. According to Chapter 1, what is Bell Town?

3. From what does the seizure medicine protect Shawn?

4. What can be frustrating to Shawn?

5. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 8, what is the main question being asked?

(see the answer key)

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