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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 happens during the commercial after the interview of Earl Detraux on the Alice Ponds Show?
(a) The electricity goes off.
(b) Shawn has a seizure.
(c) The family room is silent.
(d) A bird files into the closed family room window.

2. What does Shawn say interferes with his ability to secure a close, intimate relationship with a girl?
(a) Incontinence.
(b) Inability to control his voluntary muscles.
(c) Inability to communicate.
(d) Inability to control his involuntary muscles.

3. How is Sydney McDaniel introduced on The Alice Ponds Show?
(a) As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author.
(b) As a prize-winning writer who can explain the nature of pure evil.
(c) As a parent who kills.
(d) As a man who is considering the murder of his own child.

4. What does Shawn do at the end of the dream about Ally?
(a) Walk off into the sunset with Ally.
(b) Smile the biggest smile ever.
(c) Begin to cry.
(d) Soar off into the universe holding Ally by the hand.

5. Who is initially confused in the dream about the angels?
(a) The baby.
(b) The angel.
(c) His father.
(d) Shawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Shawn tells Ally that he loves her, what word or phrase does he almost add?

2. In the interview when Alice Ponds mentions voluntary euthanasia, what is she implying?

3. According to the interview of Earl Detraux on the Alice Ponds Show, what is his quality of life like currently?

4. What type of audience does The Alice Ponds Show attract?

5. What seems to fall off of the computer screen in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shawn describe the African animal mobile that hangs over his bed, and why does he describe it in this manner?

2. While Shawn has a doozy of a seizure during the end of the Alice Ponds show, what does he experience?

3. How does Shawn react to meeting his sister's friend Ally, and why?

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

5. What is Sydney McDaniel's definition of parental love, as offered on The Alice Ponds Show?

6. Why is it significant that Shawn's father volunteers to take care of Shawn by himself overnight and sends Vonda home?

7. What is the Annie-Sullivan-meeting-Helen Keller-in-The Miracle-Worker routine and what does Shawn think about it?

8. Why is Vonda excited to meet Shawn's father?

9. If Shawn has never been to his father's house, does Shawn have an accurate knowledge of what his father's bedroom looks like, and if so, how does he know?

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

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