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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John help Ace Frehley do to his guitar?
(a) Light it on fire.
(b) Tune it.
(c) Plant a smoke bomb in it.
(d) Repair it.

2. How deep was the deepest hole John dropped Chris in?
(a) Up to Chris' shoulders.
(b) Knee deep for Chris.
(c) Deeper than Chris' height.
(d) Up to Chris' waist.

3. What ultimately happened to Doug?
(a) He moved to another town.
(b) He died in an irrigation ditch.
(c) He was killed in a car accident.
(d) He had a nervous breakdown.

4. What story did John have to recant?
(a) That he had seen feral children in his rounds as a garbage man.
(b) That he was raising a baby he found in a dumpster.
(c) That he kept a rabid raccoon as a pet.
(d) That he was going to Harvard.

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

6. What does John say about people with Asperger's?
(a) They lack empathy.
(b) They empathize too quickly with other people.
(c) They believe they are other people beside themselves.
(d) They do not believe they are themselves.

7. What does John say he taught himself?
(a) To make unusual insights.
(b) To have a unique perspective on everything.
(c) To react normally.
(d) To protect himself with humor.

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

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

10. What astonished John about Jim Boughton's creation?
(a) The powerful wind it created.
(b) The speed it traveled at.
(c) The heat it produced.
(d) The size of it.

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

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

13. What was John Robison's reaction when his parents fought?
(a) He yelled at them to distract them from their fight.
(b) He would faint.
(c) He cried.
(d) He hurt himself.

14. What would John Robison do to Doug?
(a) Refuse to respond to him.
(b) Make fun of him.
(c) Hit him on the ears.
(d) Ignore him.

15. What was missing from the thing John and his friends found in the woods?
(a) The doors.
(b) The windshield.
(c) The wheels.
(d) The engine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool was John fascinated by?

2. How does John describe the change in his father, in chapter 6?

3. What symptoms did John develop during this time?

4. What does John say he can now see about his mother?

5. Who is Betsy?

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