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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two, Early Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Daniel experience numbers?
(a) As numbers, shapes, and colors.
(b) As letters of the alphabet.
(c) The same way you and I do.
(d) As bits of food.

2. Daniel was relentless at doing one thing when he was a baby. What was that?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Eating.

3. How does the narrator know that he was born on a Wednesday?
(a) His mother reminds him of this.
(b) He looked up the date on a calendar.
(c) The date is blue in his mind and Wednesdays are always blue.
(d) A physician told him.

4. What was Daniel intrigued with in nursery school?
(a) Lights.
(b) Textures on the ground.
(c) Other children's faces.
(d) Music.

5. What is Daniel's rare condition known as?
(a) Savant Syndrome.
(b) Severe Autism.
(c) Pervasive Delayed Disorder.
(d) Attention Developmental Disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daniel consider his first language to be?

2. Who are Daniel's heroes?

3. What did Daniel like so much about the books he piled up in his room?

4. Daniel cried to get inside a bookstore because of a certain book. What was it?

5. What is one of the reasons Daniel Tammet wrote this memoir?

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