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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the school play that Daniel's friend had a leading role in?
(a) A Christmas Carol.
(b) West Side Story.
(c) Mary Poppins.
(d) Sweeney Todd.

2. By what quality can Daniel recognize every prime number up to 9,973?
(a) Their "pebble-like" quality.
(b) Their "dagger-like" quality.
(c) Their interesting color.
(d) Their rounded shapes.

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

4. How does Daniel "see" words and language?
(a) As colors and textures.
(b) As numbers.
(c) As multiplication tables.
(d) As other languages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator know that he was born on a Wednesday?

2. What was Daniel's favorite shape?

3. In what voice is the story told?

4. During grade school Daniel longs for:

5. One of Daniel's teachers, Mr. Thraves, threw away a collection that Daniel had brought to school. What was it a collection of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Daniel was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. How does this diagnosis make sense, considering Daniel's symptoms?

2. Why was Daniel able to score so well on weekly vocabulary or spelling tests?

3. When going home from secondary school on the first day, why did Daniel take the bus going in the wrong direction?

4. Epilepsy had an impact upon Daniel in some ways. What are they?

5. For what reasons did Daniel prefer non-fiction to fiction?

6. Why did some of the children in primary school call Daniel a crybaby?

7. Why was Daniel's epilepsy not debilitating to him?

8. In what ways does Asperger's syndrome, the kind of autism Daniel has, affect his life?

9. Daniel sees days and dates in a certain way. How does he see his birth date as a certain color?

10. How did Daniel's father's mental breakdown slowly show signs of happening?

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