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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. What is frontotemporal dementia (FTD)?
2. A brilliant painter who suffered from seizures was:
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. What is Daniel's condition concerning epilepsy now?
5. How was Daniel's development as a child with walking and speaking?
Short Essay Questions
1. Other boys teased and bullied Daniel. What eventually made them stop?
2. Why did some of the children in primary school call Daniel a crybaby?
3. In what ways does Asperger's syndrome, the kind of autism Daniel has, affect his life?
4. When Daniel began secondary school, why did he go to the library during recess and eat lunch alone?
5. Why did the workers at the nursery school Daniel attended not try very hard to make him play with the other children?
6. What is synesthesia and how does it affect Daniel?
7. Why didn't learning in class come easily to Daniel?
8. Daniel was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. How does this diagnosis make sense, considering Daniel's symptoms?
9. What differentiates people with Asperger's syndrome?
10. Daniel had issues with brushing his teeth. What was his problem and how did he solve it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Even after having found Neil, Daniel continues to have problems interacting with people on a social level. What problem still exists for him and why? Is this something that will improve with time? If so, how? If not, why not?
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