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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, Adolescence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator know that he was born on a Wednesday?
(a) His mother reminds him of this.
(b) A physician told him.
(c) The date is blue in his mind and Wednesdays are always blue.
(d) He looked up the date on a calendar.

2. Why did the Tammet family need to bargain hunt in charity shops and do their own home repairs?
(a) Both parents decided to stay home and raise the family.
(b) They were all lazy and did not want to work.
(c) Salaries had been sharply cut at the time.
(d) Daniel's father had gotten fired.

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

4. When Daniel's father was just a child, what was his main chore in life?
(a) Making his bed every morning.
(b) Delivering newspapers.
(c) Bringing up his younger siblings.
(d) Cooking dinner every evening.

5. Which obsession of Daniel's caused his parents to be quite frustrated?
(a) Taking buses.
(b) Painting.
(c) Collecting things.
(d) Numbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Daniel makes his first friend in primary school. What is his name?

2. How does Daniel experience numbers?

3. In Chapter 6, Daniel goes into detail to explain a certain mathematical topic. Which topic is that?

4. What was Daniel's favorite shape?

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

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