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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 Alfred demand in his letters?

2. Which of the following can trigger a attack of the nerves?

3. How does Temple remember abstractions?

4. Which test does Temple say she scores low marks on?

5. Who sends Temple a letter in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Temple use visual images to help her in daily life?

2. Why does Temple fixate on the sliding glass door in Chapter 11?

3. How does Temple get on working with the cowboys and the cattle in Chapter 12?

4. Why does Temple do badly on the oral direction sub-test?

5. How does Temple feel when she finally walks through the sliding door?

6. How does Temple learn to stop hitting people?

7. Describe Temple's relationship with Alfred.

8. What does Lorna King say in her letter to Temple?

9. Why should people be cautious when introducing autistic children to pets?

10. What does Temple's mother say in her letter to her daughter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How much do you think Temple changed positive representations of autism? What positive impact have Temple's ideas had on society? Do you think Temple's ideas have had any negative impacts?

Essay Topic 2

How was autism viewed in the Sixties? How is autism viewed today?

Essay Topic 3

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

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