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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. When Daniel had his second seizure, what did his father do?
(a) Called an ambulance and waited.
(b) Brought him to the hospital in a taxi.
(c) Held him down to secure him.
(d) Called his wife for help.

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

3. How was Daniel's development as a child with walking and speaking?
(a) Severely delayed.
(b) No one was sure.
(c) Age-appropriate.
(d) Gifted.

4. When Daniel's mother was growing up, what did she consider herself to be?
(a) A member of a loving family.
(b) A mother to everyone.
(c) Too old to play with her siblings.
(d) An outsider.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What 1988 film featured a character having a syndrome similar to Daniel's?

2. How is it possible to acquire savant skills?

3. How many languages does Daniel know?

4. What method does Daniel explain to the reader on how to test for a prime number?

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

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