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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. Who is Carlock to Temple?

2. How does Temple describe her teachers in this chapter?

3. Which of the following words does one of the students call Temple?

4. What is Temple Grandin invited to?

5. What word does Temple repeat?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Temple process information differently from other children?

2. What does Temple say in her talks with the psychiatrist?

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

4. How does Temple define autism?

5. How does Temple cope at private school?

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

7. How does autism affect Temple's speech?

8. What impresses Rimland about Temple?

9. Who is William Carlock?

10. What does Temple's mother's letter say about her mother's character and feelings towards her daughter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine autism as described in the book.

1) How does an autistic think compared to a more normal person?

2) How can an autistic learn differently?

3) Define a stable state of mind.

Essay Topic 2

Emergence was written in 1986. Choose one of the following options and discuss how ideas have developed since then:

1) The use of medication

2) Educating autistics

3) The encouragement of fixations

Essay Topic 3

Discuss differences between the novel and autobiography formats. What are the main elements of a novel? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

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