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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Temple write a poem about?
(a) Family
(b) The rainbow
(c) The dark ages
(d) The middle ages

2. Who writes the foreword?
(a) Temple's mother
(b) Temple Grandin
(c) Bill Carlock
(d) Bernard Rimland

3. Which of the following words does one of the students call Temple?
(a) Retard
(b) Loopy
(c) Auto
(d) Bananas

4. What does Temple's teacher smell of?
(a) Shampoo
(b) Strong perfume
(c) Cornflakes
(d) Mold

5. What does Temple call the behaviors of an autistic?
(a) Bizarre
(b) Trippy
(c) Deep
(d) Wild

6. What genre does Temple become fascinated by?
(a) Sport
(b) Romance
(c) Science fiction
(d) Comedy

7. What was the last school Temple attended?
(a) Junior High School
(b) High school
(c) College
(d) Graduate school

8. What word does Temple repeat?
(a) Ice
(b) Ping
(c) Gas
(d) Map

9. What does the hat make Temple's ears feel like?
(a) They are deaf
(b) They are one ear
(c) They are burning
(d) They have disappeared

10. Why is Temple surprised that she is invited to the reunion?
(a) She has no friends from the school
(b) She is a loner
(c) She was hated as a child
(d) She was a bizarre child

11. What does Temple throw at the student who calls her a retard?
(a) A book
(b) A knife
(c) A glass
(d) A desk

12. Why does Rimland say he is interested in Temple?
(a) She is a unique case
(b) She has insights about autistic children
(c) She can attract media attention
(d) She is beautiful

13. What does Temple's mother use to record Temple's life?
(a) A tape recorder
(b) A polaroid camera
(c) A video camera
(d) A diary

14. What does Temple call a suitcase?
(a) A chest
(b) A rectangle
(c) A flower pot
(d) A box

15. Which of the following noises does Temple say she made as a four-year-old?
(a) La la ing
(b) Peeping
(c) Ringing
(d) Humming

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a boy tell Temple she does not have?

2. What does Temple's mother say school is going to be like?

3. Who does Rimland write about?

4. Which of the following can a lack of touch cause?

5. What letter does Temple say suitcase begins with?

(see the answer keys)

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