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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cindy do when the dog is hit by the car?
(a) Calls for help on the cell phone.
(b) Continues driving.
(c) Swerves and doubles back.
(d) Picks up the dog and strokes its face until it dies.

2. What happens at the very end of chapter 16?
(a) Shawn's father turns away.
(b) Shawn has a seizure.
(c) Shawn's father lifts the pillow.
(d) Shawn leaves his body.

3. What control does Shawn have over his body?
(a) Shawn can bounce his head.
(b) Shawn can control his left finger and tap out Morse code.
(c) Shawn can control his eyes.
(d) Shawn cannot control any of his muscles or functions.

4. When did Shawn's mother get her nickname?
(a) From her younger brother, who could not pronounce her name as a child.
(b) From one of Shawn's earliest vocalizations.
(c) From his father, after Paul is born.
(d) From his father, before they are married.

5. What do Shawn's parents explain to their friends "a trillion times?"
(a) Something that is "stupid."
(b) Something about Shawn that is only partially true.
(c) About Shawn's test scores.
(d) About Shawn's I.Q.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the crow land?

2. While making the PBS Special at Shawn's classroom, Sydney McDaniel claims that people will not place ineducable children where?

3. Faced with the crow, Dad compares Shawn's helplessness to what?

4. What kind of perfume does Shawn remember his mother wearing?

5. What is Shawn's birth order?

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