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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what does the seizure medicine protect Shawn?
(a) Muscle spasms.
(b) Paralysis.
(c) Broken bones.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. What can be frustrating to Shawn?
(a) Being trapped inside a useless body.
(b) That he is pretty sure his father is planning to kill him.
(c) His reflexes.
(d) Being talked to like a newborn baby.

3. What happens during the commercial after the interview of Earl Detraux on the Alice Ponds Show?
(a) The family room is silent.
(b) The electricity goes off.
(c) Shawn has a seizure.
(d) A bird files into the closed family room window.

4. Who is Paul?
(a) Shawn's younger brother.
(b) Shawn's older brother.
(c) Shawn's cousin.
(d) Shawn's middle brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the doozy of a seizure that Shawn has during the Alice Ponds Show, what does Shawn experience?

3. Why is Dad enraged and fearful after the experience with the crow?

4. When Shawn tells Ally that he loves her, what word or phrase does he almost add?

5. What is Shawn's birth order?

(see the answer key)

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