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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Earl Detraux doing now?
(a) Serving time.
(b) Appearing on the Alice Ponds show.
(c) Making a PBS special with Shawn's father.
(d) Making a made-for-TV movie with Shawn's father.

2. Who teaches Shawn to read?
(a) Shawn's father.
(b) Shawn's mother.
(c) Cindy.
(d) Paul.

3. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 11, what is the overriding image or message?
(a) Nothingness.
(b) Aloneness.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Blindness.

4. What is the pain that Dad speaks of wanting to end for Shawn?
(a) The pain of knowing a loveless life.
(b) The pain of grand mal seizures.
(c) The pain associated with bleeding in the brain.
(d) The pain of muscle spasms.

5. In Chapter 8, what do the doctors say is "almost impossible?"
(a) That Shawn is aware.
(b) That Shawn will be cured of seizures.
(c) That Shawn will recover.
(d) That Shawn's IQ will change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is newsworthy about Collin?

2. In Chapter 6 Shawn describes his seizures as being like what?

3. How does Shawn describe William, one of the teacher assistants?

4. What kind of prize does his father win?

5. How does Shawn's mother describe Sydney to Connie?

(see the answer key)

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