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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. Shawn especially enjoys interacting with Becky when she places him where every day?
(a) On the large, mysteriously stained couch.
(b) In the standing contraption.
(c) Back in his wheelchair.
(d) On the beanbag chair.

2. What phrase is confusing to Shawn at first because of his lack of experience?
(a) Chicken soup.
(b) Postal worker.
(c) Turkey dressing.
(d) Cigarette drag.

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

4. How old is Shawn the first few times that his spirit leaves his body?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the crow land?

2. In Shawn's opinion, the fame of the poem turned his father into a professional what?

3. Who is Cindy?

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

5. In Chapter 8, what idea is more confusing to Shawn because he knows that his father loves him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, Shawn notes that his father has been a public figure because of the poem he writes about Shawn. Name three things that fame brings to Shawn's father.

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

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

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

5. Why does Shawn think that his father is smart?

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

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

8. What does Cindy do when the dog is hit by a car?

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

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

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