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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Sydney McDaniel introduced on The Alice Ponds Show?
(a) As a prize-winning writer who can explain the nature of pure evil.
(b) As a parent who kills.
(c) As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author.
(d) As a man who is considering the murder of his own child.

2. Where is Shawn the week before his father comes by the house?
(a) Shawn is in the television room.
(b) Shawn is in the living room.
(c) Shawn is on the back deck of the house.
(d) Shawn is in the backyard.

3. What phrase is still confusing to Shawn?
(a) Keep on trucking.
(b) Car wash.
(c) Kitty Hawk.
(d) Door bell.

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

5. When Shawn's mother has coffee with her friend Connie and they talk about his father leaving, where is Shawn?
(a) At the window overlooking Puget Sound.
(b) At school.
(c) In the dining room.
(d) In the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shawn's good news?

2. According to Chapter 1, what is Bell Town?

3. At the end of Chapter 9, what suddenly matters a lot to Shawn?

4. Why does Shawn mention women in a Maxfield Parrish painting?

5. Shawn's father's house can be described as what?

(see the answer key)

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