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

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 man who is considering the murder of his own child.
(c) As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author.
(d) As a parent who kills.

2. Who is going to watch Paul's team in the tournament?
(a) Cindy, Ally, and the rest of her friends.
(b) Mom and Cindy.
(c) Mom, Cindy, and Cindy's friends.
(d) Paul's friends.

3. In the stanza of the poem that opens Chapter 10, what has become a "meringue of dust"?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Words.
(c) Feathers.
(d) Ideas.

4. In Chapter 14, who refers to Shawn as "baby boy"?
(a) Shawn's mother.
(b) Shawn's father.
(c) The angels.
(d) Shawn.

5. In the interview when Alice Ponds mentions voluntary euthanasia, what is she implying?
(a) That all types of euthanasia are the same.
(b) That children are not the same as adults.
(c) That her studio audience does not understand the topic.
(d) That Sydney is off-topic.

6. What is newsworthy about Collin?
(a) He appears on the Alice Ponds show.
(b) He appears in a PBS Special about disabled children.
(c) He has a special motorized wheelchair.
(d) He is smothered.

7. What does Shawn say interferes with his ability to secure a close, intimate relationship with a girl?
(a) Inability to control his involuntary muscles.
(b) Inability to control his voluntary muscles.
(c) Inability to communicate.
(d) Incontinence.

8. Cindy says something on the Alice Ponds Show that Paul calls "classic." What does she say?
(a) I'd be lost without him.
(b) Do I know you?
(c) I go there often.
(d) Which brother?

9. At the end of Chapter 9, what suddenly matters a lot to Shawn?
(a) Not knowing what comes next.
(b) If Ally likes him.
(c) If Cindy goes away to college.
(d) Whether or not dying stops everything.

10. While at the Pacific Science Center, Shawn indicates someone "looks a lot more 'mad' back then." Who is Shawn referring to?
(a) Alice Ponds.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Sydney McDaniel.
(d) Earl Detraux.

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

12. In the stanza of the poem at the beginning of Chapter 15, what is falling?
(a) Wings.
(b) Angels.
(c) Feathers.
(d) Birds.

13. What does Cindy call Earl Detraux?
(a) A selfish, self centered creep.
(b) A crazed publicity seeker.
(c) A monster.
(d) A mad scientist.

14. In Chapter 12, while Shawn is outside on the front porch, what is the origin of the strong smell of fumes?
(a) The van.
(b) A cigarette lighter.
(c) The grill.
(d) Gasoline.

15. Why is Shawn glad that Ally leaves before he got up?
(a) So she will not see him eating breakfast.
(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) Because no guests means uninterrupted one-on-one time with his mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Shawn's bed like at home?

3. On The Alice Ponds Show, what does Sydney McDaniel claim kills Collin?

4. When Shawn tells Ally that he loves her, what word or phrase does he almost add?

5. What does Shawn do at the end of the dream about Ally?

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