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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 mathematical chess problem does Daniel diagram in detail in his book?
(a) Check.
(b) Checkmate.
(c) Castling.
(d) Knight's Tour.

2. What is Daniel's condition concerning epilepsy now?
(a) He is seizure-free and off medication.
(b) He still has break through seizures.
(c) He is still on medication but is seizure-free.
(d) He is off all medication but still has occasional seizures.

3. What does Daniel consider his first language to be?
(a) English.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Spanish
(d) Numbers.

4. In Chapter 5, what does Daniel describe as his overwhelming feeling at the time?
(a) Regret.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Anger.

5. Who are Daniel's heroes?
(a) He has no heroes.
(b) The characters in his books.
(c) All of his teachers.
(d) His parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is synesthesia?

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

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

4. A brilliant painter who suffered from seizures was:

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. What is synesthesia and how does it affect Daniel?

2. Why did Daniel experience feelings of anxiety throughout his schooldays?

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

4. Why did the workers at the nursery school Daniel attended not try very hard to make him play with the other children?

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

6. In what ways does Daniel compare himself to Raymond Babbitt of the movie, Rain Man?

7. How did Daniel's mother cope when his father entered a psychiatric hospital?

8. From when he was two-years-old, Daniel began to bang his head repeatedly against walls. Why might he have done this and what did his parents do to stop him?

9. Daniel's poor coordination made swimming and learning to ride a bike difficult for him. How did he eventually learn these skills?

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

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