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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven, Ticket to Kaunas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Daniel spend a lot of his time in the house on Blithbury Road?
(a) In his room, being silent.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Writing.
(d) Playing with trains.

2. What made Daniel groggy at times and sensitive to sunlight?
(a) His lack of a good night's sleep.
(b) His seizures.
(c) The lack of vegetables in his diet.
(d) His medication for epilepsy.

3. Professor Alan Snyder believes that autistic thought is:
(a) Simple and immature.
(b) Bordering on insanity.
(c) A form of schizophrenia.
(d) An extreme form of ordinary thought.

4. At the age of two, where did Daniel begin to go on a daily basis?
(a) Nursery school.
(b) The children's hospital.
(c) A childcare center.
(d) Physical therapy.

5. Daniel was relentless at doing one thing when he was a baby. What was that?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Eating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel's mother was growing up, what did she consider herself to be?

2. 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:

3. As the Tammet family grew in size, what did they do to accommodate three additional children?

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

5. When Daniel's father took a different route to nursery school one morning, how did Daniel react?

(see the answer key)

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