Shadowshaper

1. What does Siera call Robbie? 

A) the Dancing Painting

B) the Walking Mural

C) the Crying Wall

D) the Colorful Man

2. What does Siera’s grandfather ask her to do? 

A) write down his stories

B) find the shadowshapers

C) finish her mural

D) call Robbie

3. Who is Uncle Neville? 

A) Siera’s godfather

B) Siera’s father’s brother

C) Robbie’s father

D) Grandpa Lázaro’s brother

4. What happened to Dr. Wick? 

A) He moved out of the country.

B) He transferred to a different university.

C) He died suddenly.

D) He disappeared without explanation.

5. What is happening to the mural of Papa Acevado? 

A) It glows when Siera is near.

B) It dances in the night.

C) It is slowly fading.

D) It begins to speak.

6. What is a corpuscule? 

A) a dead body inhabited by someone else’s spirit

B) a made-up creature in Robbie’s mural

C) a powerful relic used by the shadowshapers

D) a painting tool Siera uses for her mural

7. What does Siera notice about Bennie’s neighborhood? 

A) It is being gentrified.

B) It is overtaken with corpuscules.

C) It is oddly quiet.

D) It is filled with murals she doesn’t recognize.

8. What does the shadow creature ask Siera? 

A) if she wants to dance

B) where Lucera is

C) how she knows Robbie

D) who her grandfather is

9.  Why does Juan believe that Grandpa Lázaro hid the truth from Siera? 

A) Siera hurt his feelings without realizing it.

B) He has sexist attitudes about women.

C) He meant to tell her but forgot.

D) He planned to tell her when she was older.

10. What do Robbie’s tattoos symbolize? 

A) his dreams

B) his regrets

C) his fears

D) his ancestry

11. What upsets Siera about Tía Rosa? 

A) her prejudiced attitudes

B) how she doesn’t appreciate art

C) her lies about shadowshaping

D) how she refuses to help stop Wick

12. What does Jerome assume about Tee because of her French name? 

A) She is French.

B) She understands French.

C) She is Haitian.

D) She is bilingual. 

13. What happens to Manny? 

A) He collaborates with Wick.

B) He is a victim of the throng haint.

C) He disappears from the city.

D) He is the victim of a shooting.

14. What does Sierra realize is the answer to the riddle: Where do the lonely women go to dance? 

A) the club

B) the beach

C) the park

D) the mirror

15. Why does Izzy not join Siera in Coney Island? 

A) She doesn’t believe Siera’s experiences with shadowshaping are real.

B) She is hurt that Siera didn’t tell her about shadowshaping earlier.

C) She is secretly working with Dr. Wick and needs to warn him.

D) She decides she is of more help if she assists Nydia with research.

16. Who is Lucera revealed to be? 

A) Tee

B) María

C) Mama Carmen

D) Nydia

17. After speaking with Mama Carmen and finding her friends, what does Siera learn has happened to Robbie? 

A) He grew afraid of his feelings for Siera.

B) He was betrayed by Nydia.

C) He lost his ability to shadowshape.

D) He was kidnapped by corpuscules.

18. Why does Wick no longer interest the Sorrows? 

A) He has proven to be loyal to them.

B) He has promised them greater power.

C) They don’t believe he can be defeated.

D) They are ashamed for having given him power.

19. How is Siera able to stop the chalk figures? 

A) scattering them with a tarp

B) erasing them with a brush

C) washing them away with water

D) binding with another drawing

20. What does Siera do when she remembers Mama Carmen’s poem? 

A) She paints a powerful mural.

B) She apologizes to the Shadows for offending them.

C) She touches her forehead to draw spirits inside her.

D) She tells Robbie she loves him.

21. Whose spirit does Siera put into her painted dragon? 

A) Manny’s

B) Mama Carmen’s

C) Papa Acevado’s

D) Vincent’s

22. Why does Siera most likely refuse to speak to Grandpa Lázaro? 

A) She suspects he helped Wick.

B) She believes he misused his authority.

C) She doesn’t want to tell him about Robbie.

D) She doesn’t need him after gaining powers for herself.