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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 kind of sweets does the psychiatrist have?

2. What is Temple Grandin invited to?

3. What is the name of Temple's doctor?

4. What does Temple write a poem about?

5. Who does Rimland write about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Temple react when the glass from the car window falls on her?

2. What does Temple's mother say about Temple in her letter to a psychologist?

3. How does autism affect Temple's speech?

4. Why is Temple expelled from school in Chapter 7?

5. What causes autism?

6. How does Temple define autism?

7. What is perserveration?

8. What does Bernard Rimland note about Temple's autism in the foreword?

9. Describe how Temple almost killed her mother and sister.

10. How does Temple cope at private school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following options and discuss how Temple's illness affected that particular area in her life:

1) Education

2) Social life

3) Intimate relationships

4) Family

Essay Topic 2

How important is it to the study of autism that the illness is addressed by a sufferer? Can someone who does not suffer from the illness ever truly understand its complexity?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the book.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's ideas?

2) Examine the way Temple uses other people in the story to express her ideas.

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