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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Daniel groggy at times and sensitive to sunlight?
(a) His seizures.
(b) His medication for epilepsy.
(c) His lack of a good night's sleep.
(d) The lack of vegetables in his diet.

2. Who did Daniel eat his lunch with on the first day of secondary school?
(a) He ate at a table alone.
(b) He found the teacher's lounge and ate with the teachers.
(c) He did not eat that day.
(d) He ate with Barak.

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

4. What is frontotemporal dementia (FTD)?
(a) A newly discovered form of epilepsy.
(b) A type of Alzheimer's disease.
(c) A degenerative brain disease.
(d) An allergic reaction to certain flowers.

5. A game Daniel played with his siblings involved collecting books. What did they do with books?
(a) They read them to one another.
(b) They built towers with them.
(c) They organized them as a library would.
(d) They donated them to libraries.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel had his second seizure, what did his father do?

2. How does Daniel "see" words and language?

3. Daniel overcame many of his difficulties learning things as a child because of

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

5. How is it possible to acquire savant skills?

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