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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine, The Gift of Tongues.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is epilepsy a cause or a symptom of brain injury?
(a) It is difficult to determine.
(b) Neither.
(c) A cause.
(d) A symptom.

2. Who in Daniel's family had also suffered from epilepsy?
(a) His maternal aunt.
(b) His father's father.
(c) His father's brother.
(d) His mother's father.

3. What type of language does Daniel find most confusing because of his Asperger's?
(a) Semantic language.
(b) Symbolic language.
(c) Foreign language.
(d) Idiomatic language.

4. What health issue did Daniel's grandfather have?
(a) Multiple sclerosis.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Mental illness.

5. Professor Ramachandran theorizes that language emerged:
(a) From an agreement to create neologisms.
(b) Originally from mathematics.
(c) Using visual learning aids.
(d) From synesthetic connections in the brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What error did Daniel make out of nervousness at taking the public bus home from secondary school the first day?

2. Who did Daniel eat his lunch with on the first day of secondary school?

3. When Daniel went alone to Nantes in France for ten days to stay with a French family, how did he cope?

4. Who did Daniel help with advice on learning Romanian?

5. What made Daniel groggy at times and sensitive to sunlight?

(see the answer key)

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