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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carlock say Temple is not concerned with?

2. What kind of world does Temple say she lived in as a child?

3. What does the psychiatrist think autistics have suffered?

4. What is Temple Grandin invited to?

5. What does Temple say she would not allow her mother to do when she was six-months-old?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is William Carlock?

2. How does Temple manage to endear herself to the other students?

3. What does Temple remember about her junior high school days?

4. How does Temple cope at private school?

5. Why does Carlock think Temple is unique?

6. What causes autism?

7. What does Bernard Rimland note about Temple's autism in the foreword?

8. How does Temple define autism?

9. What does Temple say in her talks with the psychiatrist?

10. Describe how Temple almost killed her mother and sister.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How much do you think Temple changed positive representations of autism? What positive impact have Temple's ideas had on society? Do you think Temple's ideas have had any negative impacts?

Essay Topic 2

What major events had a profound effect on Temple's life and how did they change her? What does Temple still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss differences between the novel and autobiography formats. What are the main elements of a novel? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

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