View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much money does Sydney McDaniel claim it takes to educate each ineducable child in Seattle?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
(b) Thirty-five thousand dollars per year per child.
(c) Twenty-five thousand dollars per year per child.
(d) A million dollars per decade.

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

4. What is Shawn's good news?
(a) All anwers are correct.
(b) He lives in a cool city.
(c) He has siblings who are pretty cool.
(d) He has a gift.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Shawn says that his father's books, poems, newspaper and magazine articles and his job teaching literature at college always made him think of his father as what?

2. What happens when Shawn awakens from a seizure?

3. Shawn especially enjoys interacting with Becky when she places him where every day?

4. What control does Shawn have over his body?

5. What does Shawn try not to do too much?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shawn say that he has looked into death's eyes?

2. What "techniques of making contact" does Shawn mention have not been tried on him?

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

4. How does Shawn describe his father?

5. How does Shawn's special gift progress and strengthen?

6. What is Shawn able to do when his spirit leaves his body during a seizure?

7. Describe what the special education class at Shoreline High School is like according to Shawn, and how the students behave.

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,146 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample