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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Shawn interact with his mother while having an out-of-body experience?
(a) Shawn touches her hand and thanks her.
(b) Shawn sits next to her at the beach.
(c) Shawn yells in her ear.
(d) Shawn kisses her cheek.

2. In Chapter 13, Shawn cannot stop thinking about his father. How long has it been since The Alice Ponds Show?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Five days.
(c) One day.
(d) A week.

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

4. What allows Shawn to witness the dog's moment of death?
(a) The side window clears for a second.
(b) The front windshield wipers clear the glass.
(c) Cindy picks up the dog.
(d) The angle of the open door of the van.

5. In Shawn's memory of Christmas when he is six years old, what are Cindy and Paul doing?
(a) Sneaking peaks at their Christmas gifts.
(b) Wrapping Shawn's Christmas present.
(c) Buying Shawn's Christmas gift.
(d) Wrapping Mom's Christmas gift.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Paul?

3. Why did Shawn think that he understood what death looked like before the dog died?

4. What does Dad throw at the crow?

5. In Chapter 5, during the "amazingly loud" applause, who flinches?

(see the answer key)

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