Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Daniel Tammet
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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. Why did William John Edward's wife divorce him?
(a) Doctors told her to move on because of her husband's mental illness.
(b) Her husband had cheated on her and she felt she had no choice.
(c) She was in love with someone else.
(d) She did not have long to live and wanted her husband to remarry.

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

3. What is Asperger's Syndrome?
(a) A mild, high-functioning form of autism.
(b) A debilitating form of autism.
(c) An IQ score of over 170.
(d) A mild degree of schizophrenia.

4. Daniel developed a love for a certain type of story as a child. These were:
(a) Mysteries.
(b) Fairy tales.
(c) Horror stories.
(d) Love stories.

5. For what school project did Daniel receive a top grade?
(a) His development of math puzzles.
(b) The project about coin collecting.
(c) The project on the Seoul Olympics.
(d) His report on chestnuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel's class watched the program Dark Towers, Daniel realized that he was:

2. What was one of the first words that Daniel learned to write?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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