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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. Professor Ramachandran theorizes that language emerged:
(a) Using visual learning aids.
(b) From an agreement to create neologisms.
(c) Originally from mathematics.
(d) From synesthetic connections in the brain.

2. Who did Daniel help with advice on learning Romanian?
(a) His father.
(b) His Lithuanian friend, Birute.
(c) Neil's mother.
(d) His friend, Ian.

3. What type of epilepsy was Daniel diagnosed with?
(a) Reflex.
(b) Frontal lobe.
(c) Simple partial.
(d) Temporal lobe.

4. What is frontotemporal dementia (FTD)?
(a) A newly discovered form of epilepsy.
(b) An allergic reaction to certain flowers.
(c) A degenerative brain disease.
(d) A type of Alzheimer's disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel's father returned home after a long hospitalization, how did the family celebrate?

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

3. At the age of eleven, Daniel was fascinated by the complexity of history. What did he create that involved history?

4. What caused Daniel to be interested in learning Spanish?

5. In secondary school, how did Daniel spend his playground or recess time?

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