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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. When Daniel went alone to Nantes in France for ten days to stay with a French family, how did he cope?
(a) His anxieties made him return home early.
(b) He loved it there and refused to go home.
(c) He coped very well.
(d) He cried every night.

2. Some scientists believe that metaphors may be the result of:
(a) Synesthestic experiences and linguistic creativity.
(b) Phonemic inflections of word sounds.
(c) Creative visual/spatial language.
(d) Higher level thinking in poets.

3. Who did Daniel eat his lunch with on the first day of secondary school?
(a) He found the teacher's lounge and ate with the teachers.
(b) He ate at a table alone.
(c) He did not eat that day.
(d) He ate with Barak.

4. In what experiment did Daniel participate with Dr. Gary Morgan in 2005?
(a) Learning British sign language.
(b) Emotional language.
(c) Synesthetic connections.
(d) Reacting to bird song.

5. What illness struck Daniel's father when Daniel was ten years old?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) A mental breakdown.
(d) A heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two tests were given Daniel to diagnosis his epilepsy?

2. Why did William John Edward's wife divorce him?

3. When Daniel had his second seizure, what did his father do?

4. What mathematical chess problem does Daniel diagram in detail in his book?

5. Where did Daniel's father end up living for a year and a half when he was a child?

(see the answer key)

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