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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine, The Gift of Tongues.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is it possible to acquire savant skills?
(a) Through illness or injury to the brain.
(b) Through a type of hypnosis.
(c) One can only be born that way.
(d) By concentrating on one side of the brain.

2. What made Daniel stop playing in chess tournaments?
(a) He became bored.
(b) There was not enough money in it.
(c) It was too easy for him to win most of the time.
(d) He would lose if distracted or if something unexpected happened.

3. Why did William John Edward's wife divorce him?
(a) Her husband had cheated on her and she felt she had no choice.
(b) Doctors told her to move on because of her husband's mental illness.
(c) She was in love with someone else.
(d) She did not have long to live and wanted her husband to remarry.

4. As the Tammet family grew in size, what did they do to accommodate three additional children?
(a) The parents moved into the living area.
(b) They moved to a larger home.
(c) More siblings had to share bedrooms.
(d) They renovated the house.

5. When Daniel's father returned home after a long hospitalization, how did the family celebrate?
(a) They had a house party.
(b) They did not have a celebration.
(c) They all gave him welcome home gifts.
(d) They went out for dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is frontotemporal dementia (FTD)?

2. What type of language does Daniel find most confusing because of his Asperger's?

3. A famous Russian writer who had a form of temporal lobe epilepsy was:

4. Why is learning new languages easier if you already know more than one?

5. Many people on the autistic spectrum are very good at processing information in parts instead of holistically. This explains why Daniels is so good at:

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