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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. A game Daniel played with his siblings involved collecting books. What did they do with books?

2. How was Daniel's development as a child with walking and speaking?

3. Two of the secondary school subjects that Daniel struggled with were:

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Daniel consider his parents to be his heroes?

2. Although Daniel did not interact with other children at the nursery, he did not feel lonely. Why was this?

3. Why do you think Kevin, Daniel's father, tells his wife who is pregnant with Daniel, "Whatever happens, we'll love him."

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. In what way does Daniel think about numbers?

9. What led Daniel to make up his imaginary friend, Anne?

10. What is synesthesia and how does it affect Daniel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Daniel meets his partner, Neil, on the internet. What is it about the computer that makes life so much easier for him? Why does he and others on the autistic spectrum find communication on the internet reassuring? How does the computer become one of his life's focuses?

Essay Topic 2

How does Daniel feel in the gambling town of Las Vegas? Is this a city that someone like him would enjoy? What about it disturbs him? What personal reasons does he have against going there?

Essay Topic 3

Daniel achieves a great challenge by learning Icelandic in only four days. Why is this considered so difficult? How is this learning experience different from other language-learning experiences?

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