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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kath asked Donna to come to _____ with her.
(a) Toledo.
(b) Initiation.
(c) Camp.
(d) Ordination.

2. 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 asleep.
(c) Being under water.
(d) Being in shock.

3. Donna was able to see _____ in a photo taken of her at no more than four months old.
(a) "The smile".
(b) The abuse.
(c) "The look".
(d) The intellect.

4. According to Donna, communicating indirectly with someone who is autistic is _____ than communicating directly.
(a) Less effective.
(b) More free.
(c) More frightening.
(d) Less invasive.

5. Donna states that if parents can step away from ______, autistic children might trust and reach out.
(a) Their financial obligations.
(b) Their busy schedules.
(c) Their scholarly expectations.
(d) Their own emotional needs.

6. What did Donna think autistic meant up through the time she asked her father why she was sent to the special school?
(a) Panicked.
(b) Withdrawn.
(c) Schizophrenic.
(d) Controlled.

7. What did Donna do after calling her mother on New Year's Eve?
(a) She burned a candle by herself.
(b) She ran to Mary's house.
(c) She ate a piece of chocolate cake.
(d) She went to Robyn's house to party.

8. Who did David visit using Donna's money?
(a) His mother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His sister.
(d) His uncle.

9. Tim was Donna's closest friend since _____.
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Trish.
(c) Robyn.
(d) Carol.

10. Donna says that David was quite at home in his position as _____.
(a) Comic.
(b) Benefactor.
(c) Father.
(d) Torturer.

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

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

13. _____ appealed to the indecisive part of Donna that could not tie itself down to any particular choice of subject.
(a) Teaching.
(b) The arts.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Banking.

14. What two categories did Donna put people into?
(a) Winners and losers.
(b) Good and bad.
(c) Doers and Don'ters.
(d) Us and them.

15. Who supplied food to Donna when she was in school?
(a) Her older brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Robyn.
(d) Stella.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Donna go instead of Holland?

2. What did Carol do when Willie asked her to go with him in Donna's dream?

3. Donna writes that autism is an extreme example of a mechanism that acts to _____.

4. Tim and Donna established a marvelous sense of _____ together.

5. When Donna arrived in Amsterdam, how was she dressed, in her mind?

(see the answer keys)

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