Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Daniel Tammet
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught Daniel how to play chess when Daniel was thirteen?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother, Lee.
(c) His father.
(d) Rehan.

2. What method does Daniel explain to the reader on how to test for a prime number?
(a) The Cyrene Method.
(b) The Colander of Pyrogenes.
(c) The Sieve of Eratosthenes.
(d) The Prime Method of Calculation.

3. Daniel overcame many of his difficulties learning things as a child because of
(a) Corporal punishment.
(b) His epilepsy.
(c) Perseverance.
(d) Fear.

4. In Chapter 6, Daniel discusses an awkward love note he handed to someone when he was sixteen. How did this person respond?
(a) He told Daniel he felt the same way.
(b) He said he could not be the person Daniel wanted him to be.
(c) He belittled Daniel and threatened to tell everyone about it.
(d) He laughed in Daniel's face.

5. Into what genre would this book fall?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Historical Fiction.
(c) Biography.
(d) Memoir.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel talks to himself, it helps him in what way?

2. What is Daniel's rare condition known as?

3. Many people on the autistic spectrum are very good at processing information in parts instead of holistically. This explains why Daniels is so good at:

4. When Daniel went alone to Nantes in France for ten days to stay with a French family, how did he cope?

5. The Tammet family moved several times. One of the homes was located:

(see the answer key)

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