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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 does Temple's mother say Temple is motivated by?

2. What word does a girl tell Temple to repeat?

3. Who does Temple say she almost killed?

4. What does Temple call a suitcase?

5. Which of the following does Carlock say Temple is good at?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Temple remember about her junior high school days?

2. How does Temple define autism?

3. In what way was Temple a difficult child?

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

5. Why does Temple need pressure stimulation on her body?

6. Why is Temple surprised that she is invited back to her old school in Vermont?

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

8. How does Temple cope at private school?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What major events had a profound effect on Temple's life and how did they change her? What does Temple still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the people Temple mentions in the book and discuss how he/she helped Temple to recover. Could Temple have survived without his/her support?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Temple use character and setting to express these themes?

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