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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. How many talk shows does Sydney appear on because of the poem?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Twenty-three.

2. What does Shawn not know at the time that he sees the dog killed?
(a) That his father might be planning his own death.
(b) That death is painless.
(c) That there is an afterlife.
(d) That death is a part of the cycle of life.

3. How many people attend the premiere reading of the poem?
(a) One thousand.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Five hundred.

4. What word or concept is confusing to Shawn until he sees it written out?
(a) Bow legged.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Lighter.
(d) Euthanasia.

5. How does Shawn describe William, one of the teacher assistants?
(a) An incredibly strong guy with hairy arms.
(b) An incredibly cruel psychopath.
(c) The guy who broke my arm.
(d) An incredibly nice guy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be frustrating to Shawn?

2. When Shawn describes his seizures in great detail, according to him what is it about his seizures that is especially irritating to his family?

3. How long ago was the premiere reading of the poem that was written about Shawn?

4. What does Shawn's father always do to Shawn when he comes to visit?

5. According to the discussion between Shawn's parents the last time that Shawn's father feeds him, who does not believe in God?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. During his last feeding of Shawn, Sydney tells Lindy that he is mad at something other than at Shawn. What is he mad at?

5. How does Sydney McDaniel support his argument that schools waste money educating the ineducable?

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

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

8. What does Lindy say to her friend Connie about her feelings toward Sydney's abandonment of the family?

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

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

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