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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 thinks that his father does love him, although he is freaked out by what?
(a) His inability to talk and respond.
(b) His inability to control his bowels and bladder.
(c) His drooling and head bobbing.
(d) Shawn's condition and seizures.

2. What kind of prize does his father win?
(a) Nobel.
(b) Newberry.
(c) Emmy.
(d) Pulitzer.

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

4. In Chapter 5 when Shawn's mother dresses him up, what does Shawn object to wearing?
(a) Dark slacks.
(b) Dress shoes.
(c) A bow tie.
(d) A white shirt.

5. What does Shawn hear as they first drive off in the van after the accident?
(a) A siren.
(b) Crying.
(c) Silence.
(d) The crunch of gravel.

Short Answer Questions

1. While making the PBS Special at Shawn's classroom, Sydney McDaniel claims that people will not place ineducable children where?

2. Why does Shawn say that he doesn't really have a body?

3. At what location does the premiere reading of the poem that was written about Shawn take place?

4. When Shawn's mother has coffee with her friend Connie and they talk about his father leaving, where is Shawn?

5. Shawn values the experience of having seizures so much that he would trade what in order to continue having seizures?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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