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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was John's first nickname for his brother?
(a) Pooch.
(b) Shorty.
(c) Curly.
(d) Snort.

2. How many times was John's father married?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. How does John characterize his son's development?
(a) Tending toward full-blown autism.
(b) Tending toward Aspergers.
(c) Variable--it depended on the day.
(d) Normal and healthy.

4. What did John do to make sure that the thing he was afraid of did not come about?
(a) He called the doctor every time anything looked amiss.
(b) He made a note of the numbers on Jack's hospital bracelet.
(c) He gave Jack a tattoo.
(d) He sat with the doctor and nurses all the time.

5. What unexpected force made it complicated to work at Milton Bradley?
(a) Politics.
(b) Family.
(c) Illness.
(d) Exhaustion.

6. Why was John stressed by losing his job at Simplex?
(a) Little Bear was not working, and he was the only breadwinner.
(b) He felt betrayed by management.
(c) He was angry because he felt he had been framed for poor performance.
(d) He had received such poor reviews he was afraid he would never find another job.

7. Who is Tony Atwood?
(a) The man who coined Asperger's syndrome.
(b) The man who gave John the book "Asperger's Syndrome."
(c) The author of "Asperger's syndrome."
(d) The doctor who diagnosed John's Asperger's syndrome.

8. What did the other guys in the road crew try to get John to do?
(a) Take drugs.
(b) Get drunk.
(c) Hook up with a groupie.
(d) Go home.

9. What was the reward that signaled John's success?
(a) Winning Little Bear back to him.
(b) Being asked to join the board of a local bank.
(c) Making more than $500,000 in a year.
(d) Getting a letter of congratulations from his father.

10. What was the cause John identified for problems with the Microvision game?
(a) Static electricity.
(b) Materials flaws.
(c) Manufacturing errors.
(d) Design flaws.

11. How often did John talk to his brother?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Infrequently.
(d) Weekly.

12. Why was John afraid that his son would be born sick?
(a) Because Little Bear had drunk alcohol during pregnancy.
(b) Because Little Bear had drunk coffee through her pregnancy.
(c) Because Little Bear had been sick.
(d) Because he had taken drugs.

13. What was John's lighting design for the Orlando show?
(a) Strobes on a moving sculpture.
(b) Moving ripples.
(c) Crashing waves of light.
(d) Collapsing circles of light.

14. What did John have to do with Dark Tower?
(a) Copy it.
(b) Reinvent it.
(c) Update it.
(d) Digitize it.

15. How many jobs did John move through in the six years after he married Little Bear?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John say machines appeal to him?

2. How does John say he reacted to his fear that he would be rejected?

3. What was John afraid of after his son's birth?

4. What did John find for work when he was not on tour?

5. How reliable were John's machines?

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