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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. Why does Shawn say that he doesn't really have a body?
(a) Because he has cerebral palsy.
(b) Because he has never been able to see what he looks like.
(c) Because his body doesn't work right.
(d) Because his life has always just been in his head.

2. What does Mom say to Cindy when she gets back in the van?
(a) I believe in life after death.
(b) That car left the scene of the accident.
(c) I'm sorry you had to see this.
(d) Your t-shirt is ruined.

3. In Chapter 5, during the "amazingly loud" applause, who flinches?
(a) The reporter.
(b) The young waiter.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Shawn.

4. Who teaches Shawn to read?
(a) Paul.
(b) Shawn's father.
(c) Cindy.
(d) Shawn's mother.

5. Where does the crow land?
(a) On the telephone line in the alley behind the house.
(b) On the railing under the overhanging branches.
(c) On the rear-view mirror on his father's car.
(d) On Shawn's spare wheelchair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows Shawn to witness the dog's moment of death?

2. In the first verse of the poem that Sydney writes, what animal does he use to refer to Shawn?

3. How does Shawn's father talk to him?

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

5. What does Dad think the crow might do to Shawn?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. When Shawn first heard people referred to as "vegetables," what types of images did he envision in his head?

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

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

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

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