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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Donna's dream, Carol called the man who towered over her a _____.
(a) Doctor.
(b) Client.
(c) Friend.
(d) Dog.

2. How did Donna feel when she finally sat for a long time touching Bryn's hand?
(a) Like her hand was burning off.
(b) Like she was going to die.
(c) Confused and challenged.
(d) Elated and enraptured.

3. Why did Donna think people who worked in banks were respected?
(a) Because employees had to take a test.
(b) Because they worked indoors.
(c) Because they worked with money.
(d) Because they wore uniforms.

4. What had Donna wanted to convey through her comedy?
(a) The hypocrisy of life.
(b) The hope for the future.
(c) Her despair at having autism.
(d) Her happiness.

5. Donna characterized Carol's relationship to David as that of a _____.
(a) Domestic prostitute.
(b) Sister.
(c) Mother.
(d) Live-in nurse.

6. Donna compares the perception of an autistic person and the behavior it leads to possibly triggering protective chemical or hormonal responses in the brain to _____.
(a) Being in a sensory deprivation tank.
(b) Being in shock.
(c) Being under water.
(d) Being asleep.

7. What was the name of Kath's son?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Garry.
(c) Perry.
(d) Tim.

8. What did Bryn's parents think he was afflicted with?
(a) Autism.
(b) Hodgkin's disease.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Melancholia.

9. What did the teacher in Donna's biology class have a student explain after Donna's naive answer regarding how plants live?
(a) Photosynthesis.
(b) Water conversion..
(c) Photogenesis.
(d) Cell division.

10. Donna states that the perceptual problems of deafness, muteness, and blindness in an autistic person are caused by _____.
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Medications.
(c) Extreme stress.
(d) Mental breakdown.

11. What did Donna spend all her spare time doing as a result of knowing Bryn?
(a) Studying ballet.
(b) Writing music.
(c) Riding her bike.
(d) Looking for expensive chocolate.

12. Which one of Donna's childhood friends did her remedial math teacher remind her of?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Stella.
(c) Carol.
(d) Terry.

13. Donna writes that the problems of her situation were heightened by the effect of _____.
(a) Her mother's violence.
(b) Multiple food allergies.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Isolation.

14. What does Donna call travel?
(a) Music of the mind.
(b) A universal language.
(c) A place to be oneself.
(d) The call of the free.

15. Chris teased Donna by saying that _____ was made by a machine.
(a) All the sand at the beach.
(b) The jungle.
(c) The river.
(d) Weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. At times, Donna had been considered moronic, stupid, and more politely, _____.

2. Donna was able to see _____ in a photo taken of her at no more than four months old.

3. Of the three personalities that the author possessed, only Donna had _____ that functioned in her world.

4. Where did Bryn and Donna eat food together?

5. Donna calls herself _____ in the Afterward..

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