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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 does Daniel "see" words and language?

2. In Chapter 6, Daniel goes into detail to explain a certain mathematical topic. Which topic is that?

3. What sensory feeling disturbed Daniel?

4. Professor Alan Snyder believes that autistic thought is:

5. Daniel was relentless at doing one thing when he was a baby. What was that?

Short Essay Questions

1. What differentiates people with Asperger's syndrome?

2. In what way does Daniel think about numbers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 seems to cry nonstop as a baby even into his first year of life. What is his parent's attitude toward constant crying?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Daniel's imaginary friend, Anne.

1) Why did he need to make her and others up in his mind?

2) How real does it seem that they appear to be to him?

3) Why does he have Anne leave him and say she is dying?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Daniel was part of a large family. Did this in any way help him? How? What might he have learned from his siblings? What could he have taught them?

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