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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jim start a fire?
(a) He spilled kerosene near a stove.
(b) One of his sculptures combusted in the foundry.
(c) His furnace exploded.
(d) Sparks ignited the gasoline in a vat.

2. What made people think that John was a prodigy?
(a) His musical ability.
(b) His photographic memory.
(c) His quick sense of humor.
(d) His reading.

3. What did John put in the holes he dug at Halloween?
(a) Friends dressed as zombies.
(b) Flash powder.
(c) Flashing lights.
(d) Fake corpses.

4. What did Paul teach John?
(a) How to forage for food.
(b) How to get to Florida.
(c) How to hunt for food.
(d) How to shoot a gun.

5. What did John come to believe about dogs?
(a) That they were afraid of him.
(b) That he had to kill them.
(c) That they could kill him.
(d) That they could speak to him.

6. Where did John spend the summer when he was thirteen?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Maine.
(c) California.
(d) Florida.

7. Where was John invited to live rent free?
(a) With a band.
(b) With Mary Trompke.
(c) With Jim Boughton.
(d) With his parents.

8. Where did John's family move after his father got tenure?
(a) Deerfield.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Shutesbury.

9. How does John say his biology teacher treated him?
(a) He says that the teacher was always questioning his work, and doubting his answers.
(b) He says that the teacher was always on his back.
(c) He says that the teacher was always inviting him to stay after to talk with him alone.
(d) He says that the teacher was always getting him in trouble.

10. How was John spending his time when he was sixteen?
(a) Hanging around in bars.
(b) Hitchhiking around.
(c) Studying independently.
(d) Working in a factory.

11. What did John fantasize about, in the vehicle in the woods?
(a) Being a race driver.
(b) Being a trucker.
(c) Being a combat pilot.
(d) Being a farmer.

12. Where did John get a job?
(a) A garbage collector.
(b) Harvard.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A sound company.

13. What was John's reaction to Betsy's news?
(a) He burst into hysterical laughter.
(b) He smiled inappropriately.
(c) He writhed in empathetic suffering.
(d) He fled the room in panic.

14. How does John rationalize his reaction to Betsy's news?
(a) That he wasn't dead.
(b) That the child's death was funny.
(c) That the illness was ironic.
(d) That the child's suffering was unbearable without laughter.

15. What allowed John to get away from home?
(a) A motor scooter.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) Hitchhiking.
(d) A car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John meet Mary Trompke?

2. What was preschool like for John Robison?

3. How deep was the deepest hole John dropped Chris in?

4. What did John learn to distinguish appropriate reactions from?

5. What tool was John fascinated by?

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