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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, School Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Daniel like so much about the books he piled up in his room?
(a) The pictures were nice.
(b) They had numbers on them.
(c) The ink was black.
(d) The stories were interesting.

2. Where did Daniel's father end up living for a year and a half when he was a child?
(a) In a hostel for the homeless.
(b) In Scotland.
(c) In a large orphanage.
(d) With his ill father.

3. 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.

4. One of Daniel's teachers, Mr. Thraves, threw away a collection that Daniel had brought to school. What was it a collection of?
(a) Ants.
(b) Leaflets.
(c) Acorns.
(d) Ladybirds.

5. A famous Russian writer who had a form of temporal lobe epilepsy was:
(a) Lermontov.
(b) Andreyev.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first foreign language that Daniel learned from a neighbor?

2. Daniel was once looking at his favorite book during story time. What did he begin to do that had everyone looking at him?

3. What was Daniel's oldest brother named?

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

5. What type of epilepsy was Daniel diagnosed with?

(see the answer key)

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