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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, Struck by Lightning: Epilepsy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About how many children in Britain with an autistic spectrum disorder develop a certain type of epilepsy by adolescence?
(a) Half.
(b) Nearly none.
(c) A third.
(d) One percent.

3. What is one of the reasons Daniel Tammet wrote this memoir?
(a) To give him perspective on his life so far.
(b) To make a lot of money in royalties.
(c) To warn others of his challenges.
(d) He knew he would enjoy book signings.

4. How does Daniel experience numbers?
(a) As bits of food.
(b) The same way you and I do.
(c) As numbers, shapes, and colors.
(d) As letters of the alphabet.

5. What has Daniel's brother, Steven, been diagnosed with?
(a) Severe Autism.
(b) Asperger's Syndrome.
(c) Clinical Depression.
(d) Pervasive Developmental Disorders.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many languages does Daniel know?

2. What numerical calculation is Daniel's favorite type to do?

3. Into what genre would this book fall?

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

5. What is Daniel's condition concerning epilepsy now?

(see the answer key)

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