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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Shawn says that his father's books, poems, newspaper and magazine articles and his job teaching literature at college always made him think of his father as what?
(a) Wise.
(b) Smart.
(c) Successful.
(d) Philosophical.

2. Who is Cindy?
(a) Shawn's middle sister.
(b) Shawn's older sister.
(c) Shawn's younger sister.
(d) Shawn's cousin.

3. What does Shawn think about death?
(a) Death is the exactly the opposite of of what Cindy says it is.
(b) Death will put him out of his misery.
(c) Death is peaceful.
(d) Death is a big fat nothing.

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

5. What phrase is still confusing to Shawn?
(a) Door bell.
(b) Kitty Hawk.
(c) Keep on trucking.
(d) Car wash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which classroom staff members at the school does Shawn like the best?

2. In Shawn's opinion, the fame of the poem turned his father into a professional what?

3. What does Shawn do at the end of the dream about Ally?

4. When Shawn has an "autonomic, uncontrollable systemic reflex" during a seizure, what is Shawn doing?

5. At what location does the premiere reading of the poem that was written about Shawn take place?

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