Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Short Question Test Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter One, Blue Nines and Red Words

1. How does the narrator know that he was born on a Wednesday?

The date is blue in his mind and Wednesdays are always blue.

2. In what voice is the story told?

First person.

3. By what quality can Daniel recognize every prime number up to 9,973?

Their "pebble-like" quality.

4. What is Daniel's rare condition known as?

Savant Syndrome.

5. How does Daniel experience numbers?

As numbers, shapes, and colors.

6. What is synesthesia?

A rare neurological mixing of the senses.

7. What numerical calculation is Daniel's favorite type to do?

Power multiplication.

8. What 1988 film featured a character having a syndrome similar to Daniel's?

Rain Man.

9. What is Asperger's Syndrome?

A mild, high-functioning form of autism.

10. What does Daniel consider his first language to be?

Numbers.

11. Sometimes, when Daniel is falling asleep at night,...
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