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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John say became more difficult as her got older?
(a) Refraining from blurting out his thoughts.
(b) Controlling his troublemaking urges.
(c) Understanding the language of the children around him.
(d) Making sense of adults' contradictory expectations.

2. What tool was John fascinated by?
(a) His grandfather's lathe.
(b) His grandfather's post hole digger.
(c) His grandfather's electronic equipment.
(d) His grandfather's power saw.

3. What did John's grandfather let him do?
(a) Fix up and sell his Porsche.
(b) Drive his Porsche.
(c) Restore his Porsche with him.
(d) Stay with him when John's father was drunk.

4. What does John say he can now see about his mother?
(a) That she was insane.
(b) That she was unhappy in her marriage.
(c) That she was menopausal.
(d) That she was having a nervous breakdown.

5. What behavior did John Robison learn from his dog?
(a) Peeing on the carpet.
(b) Barking.
(c) Biting.
(d) Chewing on furniture.

6. What had Jim Boughton made from scratch?
(a) A blast furnace.
(b) A robot.
(c) A smithy.
(d) A car.

7. How many speakers did John end up fixing at Britro?
(a) 52.
(b) 19.
(c) 44.
(d) 12.

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

9. What did John build from a kit at Christmas when he was thirteen?
(a) A radio.
(b) A television.
(c) A computer.
(d) A radio-controlled airplane.

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

11. What happened to John's mother after she separated from John's father?
(a) She started to date younger women.
(b) She married another man.
(c) She went back to school for a nursing degree.
(d) She moved away and he never heard from her.

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

13. Where was John's creation tested?
(a) At a meeting of investors.
(b) In the workshop.
(c) At a company picnic.
(d) At a Meatloaf concert.

14. How did John Robison feel when he was around other kids?
(a) Outlandish.
(b) Superior.
(c) Aggressive.
(d) Inferior.

15. How did the system John built perform?
(a) Perfectly.
(b) Better than anyone expected.
(c) There were serious problems with his system.
(d) There were only small glitches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John characterize his relationship with his parents?

2. Where did John get a job?

3. How does John describe Mary?

4. What did John buy when he sold his first Porsche?

5. How does John characterize his relationship with the musicians?

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