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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 sensory experiences does Shawn remember as they drive away from the scene of the accident?
(a) The feeling of leather straps and dampness, and the sound of rain.
(b) The feeling of shock and fear.
(c) The feeling of the damp breeze and the sound of rain.
(d) The squeak of windshield wipers and the smell of burned oil and mud.

2. What is Shawn's birth order?
(a) Youngest.
(b) Middle child.
(c) Oldest Boy.
(d) Oldest.

3. Why is Dad enraged and fearful after the experience with the crow?
(a) Because his ex-wife left Shawn alone with him.
(b) Because it is humiliating to have to be afraid of a crow.
(c) Because he realizes that Shawn is helpless and impossible to protect.
(d) Because the crow may induce a seizure in Shawn.

4. How does Shawn's father talk to him?
(a) He does not talk to Shawn directly.
(b) He shouts as though Shawn is deaf.
(c) He talks to him in an age-appropriate way, but then laughs as though at a joke.
(d) He speaks in baby-talk.

5. Why did Shawn think that he understood what death looked like before the dog died?
(a) He had seen people "die" on television.
(b) Because he heard his mother describe he death of a relative.
(c) He had read books in which people died and he has a good imagination.
(d) Because his hospital roommate died when he was seven.

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. 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. From what does the seizure medicine protect Shawn?

4. How much money does Sydney McDaniel claim it takes to educate each ineducable child in Seattle?

5. What is Shawn's gift?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Despite his irritation at the world premiere reading of the poem, what things does Shawn like about the poem?

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

10. Why does Shawn think that it is cool to live in Seattle?

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