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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. Who believes that kids like Shawn and their families need more than the Special Olympics?
(a) Earl.
(b) Cindy.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Paul.

2. What happens at the very end of chapter 16?
(a) Shawn's father turns away.
(b) Shawn has a seizure.
(c) Shawn leaves his body.
(d) Shawn's father lifts the pillow.

3. In Chapter 14, who refers to Shawn as "baby boy"?
(a) Shawn's father.
(b) Shawn.
(c) The angels.
(d) Shawn's mother.

4. What are the first word or words that Shawn's father has ever heard Shawn speak?
(a) Hey, come here.
(b) Dad, I'm okay.
(c) Dad.
(d) Dad, it's me.

5. Why is Shawn glad that Ally leaves before he got up?
(a) Because no guests means uninterrupted one-on-one time with his mother.
(b) Because he knows that the sooner she leaves the sooner she will return.
(c) So she will not see him eating breakfast.
(d) So he can remember how she appears in his dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Shawn and his father after his father finishes speaking in Chapter 16?

2. What does Shawn explain at the end of the angel dream?

3. What kind of perfume does Shawn remember his mother wearing?

4. In Chapter 13, Shawn cannot stop thinking about his father. How long has it been since The Alice Ponds Show?

5. What are the two ruffians asking about for when they threaten Shawn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shawn try to tell his father over and over again in Chapter 16, and why?

2. Which characters are going to Spokane in chapter 13 and why is it significant that they are going?

3. What does Shawn mean when he says that "invisibility has its advantages" when it comes to girls?

4. What does Shawn think about after viewing the clip of an interview between Sydney McDaniel and Earl Detraux on the Alice Ponds Show?

5. What did Shawn's father do at the Pacific Science Center when Shawn was eight years old?

6. What is in Shawn's father's bedroom that is reminiscent of the virtual ride through the cosmos at the science center and why is this significant?

7. What is apparent about the relationship between Paul and his father after Paul finds out that his father wants him to go on the Alice Ponds show?

8. In Chapter 14, Shawn dreams that his father sees angels. What is the significance of the angels?

9. Why does Shawn say in Chapter 12 that he never loved or feared his brother more than at one particular moment the previous summer?

10. Paul and Shawn's mother have opposite views about Sydney, Shawn's father. Who does Shawn agree with and what is his opinion of his father?

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