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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: Three Special Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alma Whittley help the author?
(a) She helped him write an essay for his college application.
(b) She helped him get a job at Ford Motor Company.
(c) She gave him a crash course in study skills.
(d) She gave him information about the biology program at Wayne State University.

2. What did "The Top One Hundred" program help the author learn?
(a) Science facts.
(b) Italian.
(c) Classical music.
(d) Leadership skills.

3. In "A Special Year," why was the author concerned about his wife traveling to Australia?
(a) She would have to leave all of her close friends.
(b) She hated warm climates.
(c) She was pregnant and on bed rest.
(d) She would have to quit a lucrative job.

4. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?
(a) Tutor his friends.
(b) Work at a gas station.
(c) Play basketball.
(d) Shoplift clothes at the local department store.

5. What was the reason the author and his classmates were given for having to retake a test for the psychology class, Perceptions 101?
(a) The tests were lost.
(b) The tests were inadvertently burned.
(c) There was too much talking during the first test.
(d) No one passed the first test.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author graduates _____ in his senior high school class.

2. What does the author say he would do before he let his classmates know they hurt him?

3. Why does the author say he experiences less of a negative response from patients nowadays?

4. What celebrity came to Johns Hopkins to visit Beth while she was comatose?

5. Where did the mother expect her sons to go each week, instead of watching television?

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