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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Paul realize what he is doing with the lighter?
(a) When Shawn goes into a seizure.
(b) When the lighter fails to ignite.
(c) When Cindy screams in his face.
(d) When their mother opens the back door.

2. What does Vonda usually do when she is with Shawn?
(a) Read to Shawn.
(b) Entertain herself.
(c) Watch TV with Shawn.
(d) Raid the refrigerator.

3. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 9, what is the ghost bird replacing?
(a) A heart.
(b) Healing.
(c) A real bird.
(d) Joy.

4. What does Shawn explain at the end of the angel dream?
(a) Angels aren't real!
(b) I don't want to die!
(c) I don't want to be an angel!
(d) I am not an angel!

5. What does Shawn do at the end of the dream about Ally?
(a) Walk off into the sunset with Ally.
(b) Soar off into the universe holding Ally by the hand.
(c) Smile the biggest smile ever.
(d) Begin to cry.

6. What happens during the commercial after the interview of Earl Detraux on the Alice Ponds Show?
(a) Shawn has a seizure.
(b) The family room is silent.
(c) A bird files into the closed family room window.
(d) The electricity goes off.

7. 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.

8. What do the ruffians do to Shawn?
(a) They dump him out of his wheelchair.
(b) They stab the tires of his wheelchair.
(c) They squirt him with a hose.
(d) They burn him.

9. Who is initially confused in the dream about the angels?
(a) The angel.
(b) His father.
(c) Shawn.
(d) The baby.

10. In the dream about Ally, where are Ally and Shawn sitting?
(a) On top of the Space Needle.
(b) In the nosebleed seats of the Key Arena.
(c) In the middle of a sunrise.
(d) On top of one of the tallest peaks of the Cascades.

11. When Shawn starts watching The Alice Ponds Show and Dad and Cindy come on the screen, what happens?
(a) The show is interrupted by a special news report about Earl Detraux.
(b) The electricity goes off.
(c) Shawn has a large seizure and cannot focus on the interview.
(d) Shawn has a small seizure and cannot focus on the interview.

12. When Shawn tells Ally that he loves her, what word or phrase does he almost add?
(a) Ally.
(b) Because you are so beautiful.
(c) Always and forever.
(d) Darling.

13. What is Earl Detraux doing now?
(a) Making a made-for-TV movie with Shawn's father.
(b) Appearing on the Alice Ponds show.
(c) Making a PBS special with Shawn's father.
(d) Serving time.

14. Who is referred to as being trapped at Shawn's house all night?
(a) Dad.
(b) Shawn.
(c) Vonda.
(d) The bird.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Shawn's mother get her nickname?

2. According to Shawn in Chapter 10, what does it mean when his mother sounds overly positive?

3. What seems to fall off of the computer screen in Chapter 14?

4. What is newsworthy about Collin?

5. What are the two ruffians asking about for when they threaten Shawn?

(see the answer keys)

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