2. What word or concept is confusing to Shawn until he sees it written out?
(a) Euthanasia.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Lighter.
(d) Bow legged.

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

4. While making the PBS Special at Shawn's classroom, Sydney McDaniel claims that people will not place ineducable children where?
(a) Low quality foster care.
(b) Expensive hospitals.
(c) Expensive hospices.
(d) Impersonal group homes or institutions.

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

6. What does Dad think the crow might do to Shawn?
(a) Give him lice.
(b) Infect him with disease.
(c) Peck his eyes out.
(d) Leave droppings on his clothes.

7. What does Mom say to Cindy when she gets back in the van?
(a) Your t-shirt is ruined.
(b) I believe in life after death.
(c) That car left the scene of the accident.
(d) I'm sorry you had to see this.

8. Shawn especially enjoys interacting with Becky when she places him where every day?
(a) On the large, mysteriously stained couch.
(b) Back in his wheelchair.
(c) In the standing contraption.
(d) On the beanbag chair.

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

10. Why does Shawn say that he doesn't really have a body?
(a) Because his body doesn't work right.
(b) Because his life has always just been in his head.
(c) Because he has cerebral palsy.
(d) Because he has never been able to see what he looks like.

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

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

13. What kind of prize does his father win?
(a) Pulitzer.
(b) Nobel.
(c) Emmy.
(d) Newberry.

14. What do Shawn's eyes tend to focus on?
(a) Books left open.
(b) A smudge on the wall.
(c) What's visible through a window.
(d) Nothing in particular.

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