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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Professor Alan Snyder believes that autistic thought is:
(a) A form of schizophrenia.
(b) An extreme form of ordinary thought.
(c) Bordering on insanity.
(d) Simple and immature.

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

3. In secondary school, how did Daniel spend his playground or recess time?
(a) In the teacher's lounge.
(b) Receiving extra tutoring in handwriting.
(c) Out on the playground.
(d) In the library, reading.

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

5. How is it possible to acquire savant skills?
(a) Through a type of hypnosis.
(b) Through illness or injury to the brain.
(c) By concentrating on one side of the brain.
(d) One can only be born that way.

6. What was Daniel's favorite shape?
(a) A triangle.
(b) A circle.
(c) A hexagon.
(d) A square.

7. When he feels very stressed, what does Daniel do?
(a) Count the powers of 2.
(b) Count to ten thousand.
(c) Breathe into a paper bag.
(d) Yoga breathing.

8. The Tammet family moved several times. One of the homes was located:
(a) Just across the street from his school.
(b) Just across the road from the ice cream store.
(c) Down the street from where his father worked.
(d) Next door to the school bully.

9. What was one of the first words that Daniel learned to write?
(a) Mother.
(b) Apple.
(c) Look.
(d) Lemon.

10. In what voice is the story told?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Omniscient
(d) Second person.

11. In Chapter 6, Daniel goes into detail to explain a certain mathematical topic. Which topic is that?
(a) Multiplication.
(b) Factoring.
(c) Prime numbers.
(d) Probability.

12. When he walked around, what did Daniel focus on?
(a) His feet.
(b) Up above his head.
(c) His arms as they moved.
(d) Where he was going.

13. What was Daniel's favorite book on the nursery book shelf?
(a) Guess How Much I Love You.
(b) The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
(c) Little Red Riding Hood.
(d) Goodnight Moon.

14. What error did Daniel make out of nervousness at taking the public bus home from secondary school the first day?
(a) He had no money for the bus.
(b) He yelled at the bus driver to hurry home.
(c) He forgot which number bus he should take.
(d) He took the bus going in the wrong direction.

15. When Daniel's class watched the program Dark Towers, Daniel realized that he was:
(a) Different.
(b) Intrigued.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Daniel get to play the lead role in a school play when the actor got ill?

3. At the age of eleven, Daniel was fascinated by the complexity of history. What did he create that involved history?

4. Why did William John Edward's wife divorce him?

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

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