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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. What is the pain that Dad speaks of wanting to end for Shawn?
(a) The pain of knowing a loveless life.
(b) The pain associated with bleeding in the brain.
(c) The pain of grand mal seizures.
(d) The pain of muscle spasms.

2. What does Shawn think about death?
(a) Death is a big fat nothing.
(b) Death is the exactly the opposite of of what Cindy says it is.
(c) Death is peaceful.
(d) Death will put him out of his misery.

3. What color are the dog's eyes?
(a) Gray.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

4. In the first verse of the poem that Sydney writes, what animal does he use to refer to Shawn?
(a) A fish.
(b) A crow.
(c) A butterfly.
(d) A bird.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Paul?

2. When Shawn has an "autonomic, uncontrollable systemic reflex" during a seizure, what is Shawn doing?

3. According to Chapter 1, what is Bell Town?

4. From what does the seizure medicine protect Shawn?

5. What do Shawn's parents explain to their friends "a trillion times?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of things is Shawn able to remember using his gift?

2. When talking to her mother, how does Cindy explain her experience with the dog's death?

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

4. How does Shawn describe the first signs that he will have a seizure?

5. Why does Shawn need medicine to control the seizures?

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

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

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

9. According to Shawn, who is the Shawn in the poem written by his father?

10. How does Shawn describe his experience with grand mal seizures as a child?

(see the answer keys)

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