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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. How did Daniel's parents describe his personality to others?

2. When Daniel went alone to Nantes in France for ten days to stay with a French family, how did he cope?

3. Daniel makes his first friend in primary school. What is his name?

4. What does Daniel consider his first language to be?

5. Sometimes, when Daniel is falling asleep at night, what does he see in his mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What role did epilepsy play in Daniel's being an autistic savant?

4. Professor Allan Snyder believes that savant abilities may be in everyone. How does he feel that Daniels abilities were unlocked?

5. There were only a few places where Daniel felt safe and calm. Where were those places and why did they calm him?

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

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

8. In what way does Daniel think about numbers?

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

10. Why did Daniel's brothers and sisters play "games" with him such as ironing clothes and collecting books around the house to categorize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Daniel's many obsessions. Are these obsessions the results of Asperger's or being a savant? What made others so exasperated with him? How did his parents treat these obsessions? Were they correct to do so?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Daniel find languages so fascinating? What aspects of languages are difficult for him? How does his facility with language help him in other areas of life?

Essay Topic 3

Daniel experiences numbers and language synesthetically.

1) Describe what synesthesia is.

2) Explain some ways in which Daniel experiences synesthesia.

3) How is this different from the way the average person perceives numbers and words?

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