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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the stanza of the poem in Chapter 6, what part of Shawn's body shows signs of trouble?
(a) His mouth.
(b) His head.
(c) His eyes.
(d) His neck.

2. How long ago was the premiere reading of the poem that was written about Shawn?
(a) Three years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

3. What happens in Chapter 7 when Shawn and his father are right in front of the camera?
(a) Shawn has a seizure.
(b) The cameraman trips over one of the ambulatory students.
(c) Shawn falls out of his wheelchair.
(d) His father notices Shawn nuzzling Becky.

4. In Chapter 6 Shawn describes his seizures as being like what?
(a) A miracle.
(b) A dream.
(c) An adventure movie.
(d) A nightmare.

5. What is Shawn's bad news?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) His parents got divorced because of him.
(c) He is a total "retardate."
(d) Being born changed life for the whole family.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what location does the premiere reading of the poem that was written about Shawn take place?

2. How does Mom try to comfort Cindy about the dog?

3. In Chapter 5 when Shawn's mother dresses him up, what does Shawn object to wearing?

4. Why does the school district send out a school psychologist each year?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shawn's father throw at the crow, and does he hit or miss its target?

2. How does Shawn use the example of George Washington to show the reader that he knows more than he is given credit for?

3. What does Shawn consider ironic about his actual intelligence and the assumed level of his intelligence within his class at school?

4. How does Shawn learn to read?

5. How much control does Shawn have over his seizures?

6. What is Shawn's out-of-body experience like while his father is in the classroom shooting video with a cameraman?

7. How does seeing the death of the dog make Shawn feel?

8. What does the encounter with the crow reveal to Shawn's father, and what thought occurs to him?

9. What movements does Shawn's body make and what controls them?

10. What is the little ritual that Shawn's father performs every time he visits Shawn?

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