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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. Which of the following classes does Temple find difficult?

2. What is Beefland?

3. What is the name of the machine Temple builds in this chapter?

4. What does Alfred demand in his letters?

5. Why does Temple hit a kid in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mr Brookes help Temple in Chapter 9?

2. Describe the boarding school Temple is enrolled at in Chapter 8.

3. How does Temple justify using the machine?

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

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

6. What does Temple discover about touching in Chapter 12?

7. How can fixations be used to help an autistic child?

8. What does Temple find out about brain surgery research in Chapter 13?

9. Why is it important to encourage an autistic's interests?

10. How does Temple's machine help her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how each of the following aided Temple in her recovery against manic depression"

1) Medication

2) Family

3) Psychiatry

4) Work

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

Temple often examines the positive aspects of her illness. What positives can Temple take from her illness? Would she have become the successful person she became without the illness?

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