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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. At the age of two, where did Daniel begin to go on a daily basis?
(a) Physical therapy.
(b) A childcare center.
(c) Nursery school.
(d) The children's hospital.

2. What 1988 film featured a character having a syndrome similar to Daniel's?
(a) Brain Damage.
(b) The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
(c) Rain Man.
(d) A Cry in the Dark.

3. Daniel was relentless at doing one thing when he was a baby. What was that?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Eating.
(c) Crying.
(d) Laughing.

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

5. 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) Through a type of hypnosis.
(d) One can only be born that way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the reasons Daniel Tammet wrote this memoir?

2. A famous Russian writer who had a form of temporal lobe epilepsy was:

3. When Daniel's father was just a child, what was his main chore in life?

4. How did Daniel mix with other children his age?

5. What health issue did Daniel's grandfather have?

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