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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Shawn and his father after his father finishes speaking in Chapter 16?
(a) Tears run down both of their cheeks.
(b) Shawn's father releases their thumbs.
(c) They breathe in unison.
(d) They lock eyes.

2. How much money does Sydney McDaniel claim it takes to educate each ineducable child in Seattle?
(a) Twenty-five thousand dollars per year per child.
(b) A million dollars per decade.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
(d) Thirty-five thousand dollars per year per child.

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

4. Why is Dad enraged and fearful after the experience with the crow?
(a) Because his ex-wife left Shawn alone with him.
(b) Because the crow may induce a seizure in Shawn.
(c) Because he realizes that Shawn is helpless and impossible to protect.
(d) Because it is humiliating to have to be afraid of a crow.

5. When Shawn has an "autonomic, uncontrollable systemic reflex" during a seizure, what is Shawn doing?
(a) Contracting his muscles.
(b) Breathing rapidly.
(c) Urinating.
(d) Laughing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase is still confusing to Shawn?

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

3. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 10, what has become a "meringue of dust"?

4. How does Shawn interact with his father while having an out-of-body experience?

5. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 11, what is the overriding image or message?

(see the answer key)

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