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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. Which obsession of Daniel's caused his parents to be quite frustrated?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Collecting things.
(c) Taking buses.
(d) Painting.

2. What did Daniel love the most about school assemblies?
(a) Standing quietly.
(b) Being with everyone else in the school.
(c) The Pledge of Allegiance.
(d) The singing of hymns.

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 with Barak.
(c) He ate at a table alone.
(d) He did not eat that day.

4. Why did Daniel's parents have to clear the floor in his room at night, leave a hall light, on and put a gate at the top of the stairs?
(a) Daniel sometimes walked in his sleep.
(b) So his brother, Lee, would not get hurt.
(c) For home security purposes.
(d) Daniel liked everything clean and well-lit and closed up at night.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Daniel think sudden, loud noises bothered him so much as a child?

2. What was the name of the boy Daniel made friends with in secondary school?

3. Professor Alan Snyder believes that autistic thought is:

4. About how many children in Britain with an autistic spectrum disorder develop a certain type of epilepsy by adolescence?

5. What type of epilepsy was Daniel diagnosed with?

(see the answer key)

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